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Rachelle Abbott

The Leader podcast: Natural History Museum on dinosaur ‘killed in asteroid strike’

A piece of Earth’s history has just been found.

Scientists have discovered a fossil of a perfectly preserved dinosaur leg that may have been ‘ripped off’ by the asteroid that sparked a mass extinction.

It was unearthed at a site in Tanis, North Dakota, 3,000km away from the asteroid impact site in the Gulf of Mexico.

It’s one of a number of impressive finds from the location.

Professor Paul Barrett, dinosaur specialist from the Natural History Museum, explains the significance of this 66-million-year-old find.

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