UK Daily Mail
July 13, 2011
A horn from one of the last surviving dinosaurs could finally prove that a massive meteor strike ended the extinct reptiles’ reign on Earth.
The 45cm-long fossilised browhorn belonged to a family of plant-eating dinosaurs that included the famous three-horned Triceratops.
It was found at a geological site known as the Hell Creek Formation in the bleak badlands of south-east Montana, U.S., where many other dinosaur fossils have been unearthed.
What made this find so remarkable was its location, just 13cm below the rock layer that marks the Cretaceous-Tertiary or ‘K-T’ boundary – the point in the fossil record where the dinosaurs died.
This suggests dinosaurs were around right up to the time all traces of their existence vanished.
This article was posted: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 2:55 am