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Scientists believe the Tanis site in southwest North Dakota contains fossils showing evidence of a killer tsunami-like wave that resulted from the enormous shock caused by the Chicxulub asteroid ...

The Tanis site near Bowman, North Dakota, offers evidence of the catastrophic events that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. NOVA programs to air Wednesday, May 11.

Layers of rock in the western U.S. known as the Hell Creek Formation preserve the final millennia of the age of dinosaurs. A nearby site in North Dakota called Tanis may hold sediments laid down ...

The North Dakota fossil site is a chaotic jumble. The remains of animals and plants seem to have been rolled together into a sediment dump by waves of river water set in train by unimaginable ...

Buried in the rocks in North Dakota lies evidence of the exact day the dinosaurs were obliterated from the planet, some 66 million years ago. That’s the claim of paleontologist Robert DePalma ...

A North Dakota site appears to hold fish, ... ROCK HUNT Paleontologists Robert DePalma (left) and Jan Smits (right) examine a 1.3-meter-thick, fossil-bearing rock layer at Tanis.

In a North Dakota deposit far from the Chicxulub crater in Mexico, remains of the rock from space were preserved within amber, a paleontologist says. By Kenneth Chang GREENBELT, Md. — Pristine ...

The North Dakota fossil site is a chaotic jumble. The remains of animals and plants seem to have been rolled together into a sediment dump by waves of river water set in train by unimaginable ...