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class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/inside-the-final-days-of-the-dinosaurs-before-fatal-asteroid\/#%E2%80%9CInside_the_final_days_of_the_dinosaurs_before_fatal_asteroid%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Inside the final days of the dinosaurs before fatal asteroid&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/inside-the-final-days-of-the-dinosaurs-before-fatal-asteroid\/#Dinosaur_Footprints\" >Dinosaur Footprints<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/inside-the-final-days-of-the-dinosaurs-before-fatal-asteroid\/#T-Rex_Tooth\" >T-Rex Tooth<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/inside-the-final-days-of-the-dinosaurs-before-fatal-asteroid\/#Fossilized_turtle_impaled_by_a_stake\" >Fossilized turtle impaled by a stake<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/inside-the-final-days-of-the-dinosaurs-before-fatal-asteroid\/#Leg_of_Thescelosaurus_believed_to_have_been_killed_by_asteroid\" >Leg of Thescelosaurus believed to have been killed by asteroid<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/inside-the-final-days-of-the-dinosaurs-before-fatal-asteroid\/#Skin_from_a_Triceratops\" >Skin from a Triceratops<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/inside-the-final-days-of-the-dinosaurs-before-fatal-asteroid\/#Fossilized_egg\" >Fossilized egg<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/inside-the-final-days-of-the-dinosaurs-before-fatal-asteroid\/#%E2%80%98Bullet_that_killed_the_Dinosaurs\" >\u2018Bullet\u2019 that killed the Dinosaurs<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/inside-the-final-days-of-the-dinosaurs-before-fatal-asteroid\/#Fist_that_absorbed_impact_debris_from_asteroid_and_amber_resin\" >Fist that absorbed impact debris from asteroid and amber resin<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/inside-the-final-days-of-the-dinosaurs-before-fatal-asteroid\/#Real-life_Indy_digs_up_%E2%80%98new_dinosaur\" >Real-life Indy digs up \u2018new\u2019 dinosaur<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CInside_the_final_days_of_the_dinosaurs_before_fatal_asteroid%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Inside the final days of the dinosaurs before fatal asteroid&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Dinosaurs roamed the Earth for millions of years \u2013 until one day, 66 million years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount \u00adEverest struck the planet, bringing their almost instant annihilation.<\/p>\n<p>Now a landmark new BBC documentary, Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough, uses state-of-the-art special effects to recreate in extraordinary detail, hour by hour, the creatures\u2019 final 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Paleontologist and Manchester University graduate Robert DePalma has spent years searching a prehistoric dinosaur \u201cgraveyard\u201d in the hills of North Dakota in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The fossil site \u2013 which he has named Tanis after the Egyptian city excavated in the Indiana Jones film Raiders Of The Lost Ark \u2013 may be 2,000 miles from where the meteorite hit in the Chicxulub Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>But Robert, who seems to style himself like Indiana Jones, believes the creatures were swept to their deaths in a tsunami, then entombed in sediment, which explains why they are so well preserved.<\/p>\n<p>From the embryo of a flying pterosaur in its egg, to a dinosaur fossil that may have been killed on the day the extinction asteroid hit, we reveal the amazing finds the team unearthed.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Dinosaur_Footprints\"><\/span>Dinosaur Footprints<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s not just the discovery of fossilized animal remains that is adding to our knowledge of the period just before the dinosaurs died out.<\/p>\n<p>Beautifully preserved footprints left by the prehistoric creatures are now being unearthed by Robert, and are also providing clues.<\/p>\n<p>His team has discovered a number of footprints including one 30cm-long specimen that is believed to have belonged to a duck-billed dinosaur.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/dinosaurs.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Illustration of the K\/T Event at the end of the Cretaceous Period. A ten-kilometre-wide asteroid or comet is entering the Earth's atmosphere as dinosaurs, including T. rex, look on.\" class=\"wp-image-21923658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/dinosaurs.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/dinosaurs.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/dinosaurs.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Paleontologists may have a clue where prehistoric dinosaurs were living before they were exterminated by an asteroid.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a> Photo Library \/ Alamy Stock Photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Robert says: \u201cThey would have been very common in the Cretaceous period. They ate the plants in the area and they got very large \u2013 30ft long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One track is particularly well preserved.<\/p>\n<p>Robert says: \u201cYou even see a nail print at the tips of the toes, so the little toenails dug into the mud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love this one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robert\u2019s prized footprint features three toes and is longer than it is wide, so it is likely to belong to a carnivorous dinosaur.<\/p>\n<p>Sir David said: \u201cHell Creek is well known for one carnivore in particular \u2013 T-Rex. This footprint is too small for an adult T-Rex but it\u2019s possible it was made by a young one.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/RobertDePalma.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Paleontologist Robert DePalma argues prehistoric dinosaurs must\u2019ve died from a tsunami.\" class=\"wp-image-21923752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/RobertDePalma.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/RobertDePalma.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/RobertDePalma.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Paleontologist Robert DePalma argues prehistoric dinosaurs must\u2019ve died from a tsunami.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">BBC \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"T-Rex_Tooth\"><\/span>T-Rex Tooth<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Another exciting discovery made by Robert at Tanis is the crown of a tooth.<\/p>\n<p>Sir David explains: \u201cIts shape and serrated edge are indications it comes from an adult T-Rex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was found lodged in the spine of a hadrosaur, a plant-eating dinosaur, proving that it hunted live prey.<\/p>\n<p>Sir David added: \u201cBite marks found on T-Rex bones show that they also ate other T-Rexes.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Fossilized_turtle_impaled_by_a_stake\"><\/span>Fossilized turtle impaled by a stake<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Robert and his team used ultra-cold liquid nitrogen to help free the complete fossil of a turtle.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a heart-stopping moment but the team manages to get the specimen out in one piece.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/David-Attenborough.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"British broadcaster and conservationist David Attenborough.\" class=\"wp-image-21923851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/David-Attenborough.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/David-Attenborough.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/David-Attenborough.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>British broadcaster and conservationist David Attenborough.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">CHRIS J RATCLIFFE\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Evidence points to the turtle having been impaled by a wooden stake \u2013 possibly a tree branch \u2013 as the impact of the asteroid caused a tsunami of destruction that swept across the planet.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Leg_of_Thescelosaurus_believed_to_have_been_killed_by_asteroid\"><\/span>Leg of Thescelosaurus believed to have been killed by asteroid<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Robert and his team face a race against the clock to excavate a mass dinosaur graveyard.<\/p>\n<p>A heavy storm is heading their way and if they do not move fast, precious evidence could be washed away \u2013 and lost forever.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>After hours of painstaking work, they are stunned to discover what is thought to be a one-of-a-kind specimen \u2013 the fossilized leg of a dinosaur that may have been killed on that fateful day the asteroid hit.<\/p>\n<p>The leg, complete with surviving scaly skin, is later analyzed by Professor Paul Barrett, head of Fossil Vertebrates at London\u2019s Natural History Museum, who reveals it belonged to a plant-eating thescelosaurus.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThis looks like an animal whose leg has simply been ripped off really quickly. There\u2019s no evidence on the leg of disease, there are no obvious pathologies, there\u2019s no trace of the leg being scavenged, such as bite marks or bits missing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could well be that this was an animal that was there, being tumbled around, in its death throes in that river as a result of the asteroid impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Skin_from_a_Triceratops\"><\/span>Skin from a Triceratops<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Triceratops bones are a relatively common discovery at the site in Hell Creek but recovering fossilized skin in good condition \u2013 as the team find on one specimen they unearth \u2013\u200ais very rare.<\/p>\n<p>Sir David says: \u201cThe size and the patterning of the scales, together with the age and the location of the rocks where it was found, strongly suggests this was from a triceratops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe brown colour contains traces of organic material, so it might even be possible from this to work out which pigments were in it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Triceratops.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Horridus, the world's most complete Triceratops fossil is on display during a media to preview of 'Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs' at Melbourne Museum, in Melbourne, Australia, 07 March 2022. The exhibition contains the world's most complete Triceratops fossil - the 67-million-year-old Horridus.\" class=\"wp-image-21923935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Triceratops.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Triceratops.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Triceratops.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The world\u2019s most complete Triceratops fossil at the Melbourne Museum in Australia.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">JOEL CARRETT\/EPA-EFE\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cFinding and studying such well-preserved fossils helps paleontologists build a much more detailed picture of how these creatures lived.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Fossilized_egg\"><\/span>Fossilized egg<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Pterosaurs were winged creatures that lived among dinosaurs \u2013 though they are not classed as dinosaurs themselves \u2013 becoming extinct around the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Sir David says: \u201cMale pterosaurs usually had crests, while the females didn\u2019t, so crests may have been used in courtship displays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And we now have an indication where female pterosaurs laid their eggs, because evidence suggests one laid hers in the soft, sandy river bank at Tanis.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-nypost-medium-post\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"322\" height=\"483\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Pterosaur.jpg?w=322\" alt=\"A handout illustration shows the newly identified Jurassic Period flying reptile, or pterosaur, called 'Dearc sgiathanach', \" class=\"wp-image-21924001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Pterosaur.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=644 644w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Pterosaur.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=483 483w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Pterosaur.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=322 322w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Pterosaur.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=161 161w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Pterosaur.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\"\/><figcaption>Pterosaurs are not classified as dinosaurs despite co-existing with them.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Natalia Jagielska\/Handout via REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Paleobiologist Dr. Victoria Egerton, a researcher and professor at Manchester University, discovers the shell is soft, like a turtle\u2019s, and not hard like most dino eggs.<\/p>\n<p>Very little is known about this type of pterosaur, the azhdarchid, and Dr Egerton says of the new discovery: \u201cThey were much more reptilian than bird-like and this can potentially tell us more about the environment these eggs were laid in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sir David adds that the sandy soil at Tanis would have been just soft enough for hatchlings to dig themselves out.<\/p>\n<p>Robert adds: \u201cThis probably had a wingspan of maybe 15ft. It\u2019s easy to picture something like that hatching and later fluttering out, almost like a little bat.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98Bullet_that_killed_the_Dinosaurs\"><\/span>\u2018Bullet\u2019 that killed the Dinosaurs<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Specialist scans back in the UK reveal something remarkable about one of the tiny spherule particles found in some fish gills. It contains iron, chromium and nickel.<\/p>\n<p>Robert says: \u201cThe abundance of the three all together matches what you\u2019d expect to see in a meteoritic body. That doesn\u2019t match what you\u2019d usually have down here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis could be a piece of the Chicxulub asteroid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor Phil Manning, chair of Natural History at Manchester University, adds: \u201cThis could be a piece of the bullet that killed the dinosaurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Fist_that_absorbed_impact_debris_from_asteroid_and_amber_resin\"><\/span>Fist that absorbed impact debris from asteroid and amber resin<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Among the thick layer of rock at Tanis, Robert and his team find hundreds of fossilized fish whose gills contain tiny clay balls that suggest they died soon after the asteroid hit.<\/p>\n<p>Known as ejecta spherules, they formed from rocks that were flung into the air by the impact of the asteroid before raining down and becoming tr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed inside the fish gills.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-nypost-small-post\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"231\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/fossilized-fish.jpg?w=231\" alt=\"Chuck Bonner searches a chalk bed near Monument Rocks, Kan. for additional fossilized fish bones belonging with the fish vertebrae shown in the foreground Aug. 16, 2003. \" class=\"wp-image-21924068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/fossilized-fish.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=462 462w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/fossilized-fish.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=346 346w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/fossilized-fish.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=231 231w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/fossilized-fish.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=115 115w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/fossilized-fish.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\"\/><figcaption>A man digs up fossilized fish bones near Monument Rocks, Kansas on August 16, 2003. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Charlie Riedel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Over millions of years, these tiny beads of molten glass have turned into clay, and Robert says: \u201cThey give us a fingerprint of where they came from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But to find evidence of what happened that day, he needs to find one that hasn\u2019t turned to clay \u2013 so the team search for a spherule encased in fossilised amber.<\/p>\n<p>Sir David says: \u201cAnything covered by the resin would be frozen in an amber time capsule. A spherule preserved in amber could be analysed to see if it comes from the Chicxulub impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They find two preserved spherules, and analysis by Manchester University\u2019s Professor Manning finds powerful evidence Tanis and Chicxulub are linked.<\/p>\n<p>Robert says: \u201cOnce you have that link and you know what impact affected Tanis, then you essentially know that everything buried in those sediments are linked to the last day of the Cretaceous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u200aDinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough airs tonight on BBC1 at 6.30pm.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Real-life_Indy_digs_up_%E2%80%98new_dinosaur\"><\/span>Real-life Indy digs up \u2018new\u2019 dinosaur<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In his battered brown fedora and khaki shirt with a sheathed dagger hanging from his belt, dinosaur hunter Robert DePalma is every inch the modern-day Indiana Jones.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old paleontologist has spent much of his adult life digging for answers on the apocalypse that wiped out the prehistoric creatures 66million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Florida, DePalma inherited a \u00adfascination with bones and teeth from his orthodontist dad and great-uncle Anthony, an orthopaedic surgeon and the father of renowned film director Brian DePalma.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>As a three-year-old, Robert would examine bones left after family meals. When he was given a fragment of dinosaur bone at the age of four, he showed it to Anthony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe taught me all those little knobs and rough patches on a bone had names,\u201d DePalma told the New Yorker. \u201cI was captivated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A PhD student at the University of Manchester, he began excavating the North Dakota site Hell Creek in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Among his incredible finds there are a new species of dinosaur \u2013 the dakotaraptor \u2013 and the bones of dinosaurs that perished when a giant \u00adasteroid slammed into what is now the Yucatan Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>He shuns modern tools, preferring to dig with a World War Two bayonet given to him by his uncle, and dental tools donated by his dad.<\/p>\n<p>After his latest finds at Hell Creek, and his collaboration with David Attenborough, the maverick dinosaur hunter could soon be the subject of his own Hollywood movie.<\/p>\n<p>Time to give cousin Brian a call?<\/p>\n<p><em>This story originally appeared on\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/18268809\/dinosaurs-meteor-final-days\/\">The Sun<\/a>\u00a0and has been reproduced here with permission.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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