Tsunami-Like Wave Left Killing Field 66 Million Years Ago (IMAGE)
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A meteor impact 66 million years ago generated a tsunami-like wave in an inland sea that killed and buried fish, mammals, insects and a dinosaur (Triceratops), the first victims of a cataclysm that led to Earth's last mass extinction. The death scene from within an hour of the impact has been excavated at an unprecedented fossil site in North Dakota.
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Graphic courtesy of Robert DePalma
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