New Fossil Discovery Offers Glimpse into the Day the Dinosaurs Died | NOVA | PBS
A mass of fossilized fish, uncovered in North Dakota, appear to preserve the catastrophic fallout of the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Digital Producer: Emily Zendt
MEDIA CREDITS
Additional Footage: University of Kansas / Robert DePalma
Music: APM
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@garyk.nedrow8302
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 am
Scientists have been impressed with the quality of the fossils found at the Tanis site, but they question the conclusions drawn by DePalma as to what the findings actually prove. Until confirming studies are published, we ought to view those conclusions with scholarly detachment, if not outright skepticism. The Tanis fossils appear to have been buried by a giant tsunami created by the Chicxulub asterioid impact. That only accounts for how these specific individual animals died, but it does not prove why or how the dinosaurs as a class went extinct, or when.
Quite apart from that academic argument, we might note that at this time, 66 million years ago, the Earth was warm, with no ice and snow at the North or South pole. Those alarmed by the current global warming controversy need to be reminded that modern doomsday scenarios usually fail to take this geologic period into account. The world was much warmer 66 million years ago than it is today, and biodiversity didn't suffer from it. There are good reasons for reducing industrial pollution of all kinds, cleaning up our oceans, and reducing the burden on our biosphere in numerous ways — but global warming hysteria is not among them.
@carriecruzpadilla8620
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 am
He's not student anymore after that find he's an expert
@erickv8684
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 am
How many mass extinction events will happen in the future?
@michaelreed4744
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 am
Hello. This theory needs to be reexamined for it seems that volcanic and lightening activities helped to play a role in fossilization.
@Dyejob01
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 am
Amazing that we are finding evidence of the asteroid impact, that hit in the Gulf of Mexico, so far north in the US. The Dakota's? Just, WOW 😲
@michel3691
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 am
Incredible
@dennisj.isreal8263
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 am
😇 Proof Of Scriptures & Exodus 3:13-15: I AM THAT I AM'S Genesis Flood, When Our Heavenly Romans 8:15: ABBA Cleansed The World: Of Large Creators, Giants And Evil People, TOO! 2 Peter 3:8 But Beloved, Be Not Ignorant Of This One Thing, That One Day Is With The Lord As A Thousand Years, And A Thousand Years As One Day. So 360 Of Our Days, Equal 1 Year For Man; Then 360,000 Of Our Years Just Equal 1 YEAR For Our Heavenly Father, Plainly Showing HIS T.I.M.E.= Time Is My Eternity. Isaiah 66:4 I Also Will Choose Their Delusions, And I Will Bring Their Fears Upon Them; Because When I Called, None Did Answer; When I Spoke, They Did Not Hear; But They Did Evil Before Mine Eyes, And Chose To Do Things That In Which, I Was Not Delighted In. 🙏
@bernardmcmahon5377
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 am
Loved watching your discoveries on bbc tv, excellent presentation thanks 👍👍👍👍 Salford uk
@richardmourdock2719
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 am
Not mentioned here (though it should have been) Dr. Jan Smit was one of the first about fifty years ago to suggest that the Cretaceious/Tertiary (or K/T boundary as it is known) represented a global collapse of the food chain. He did not postulate at that time an Asteroid, that came from Louis and Walter Alvarez, but the food chain collapse was a unique and new interpretation which of course, deepened the mystery of "what could cause a total global food chain collapse?"
@jkyoft78
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 am
I heard they have been accused of keeping the site for themselves, not sharing, not giving access to others – DePalma in particular.
@havellsgec4578
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 am
Very great discovery… excellent job….😎😍🤩💣💥💣💥👏👏👏
@chastinaconstant3605
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 am
Behold the power of God, but it wasn't millions of years ago! Jewish people have been keeping up with the real age of earth! It's not even 6000 years yet, It's only 5781! A massive flood and sudden mud and land slides could have compacted lots of bodies in seconds! Water breaking from the ground suddenly and rain falling like sheets and thick blankets could cover the earth quickly without warning, everything and everyone that wasn't on that ark dead! 🤔💔🌎 And there was talk of dragons in the middle ages, so things like dinosaurs were probably hunted and killed as trophies for knights and Kings!
@Neschel0514
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 am
What a view
@SolaceEasy
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 am
I think it was a worse day for planet Earth when Theia ran into it.
@cookwithfari
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 am
Interesting
@dustermcclean2517
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 am
It's a crap, it proves nothing. Get out of here, you're a dam deceivers!
@98-kzew
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 am
No way that the atmosphere caught fire and spread around the world in a few hours like this doc. say's. So the earth just caught fire from the particles launched into the atmosphere that was also super heated. Sounds good, but not logical.
@bzssheetmetal6783
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 am
Do you know who's been saying this for years (Graham Hancock)
@spid3rdan
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 am
Is it Christmas already?
@MeanOldLady
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 am
Why is it you promote every half-assed theory under the sun yet you don't dare show other viewpoints with their own supporting evidence?
Why is it always non-stop atheist pipe dreams with a million dead ends & 100 half-baked "new discoveries" every year that amount to nothing or shatter ever-changing popular dating methods?
Stop supporting that stupid foundation of sand & put together something concrete for once!
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