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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Some zooms from my 2022 painting of a Thescelosaurus (front lit by the low Sun from the west) amidst the Tanis devastation caused by the end Cretaceous Chicxulub asteroid impact. Also features are Triceratops and Quetzalcoatlus.
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Chicxulub #Thescelosaurus #Tanis #Triceratops #Quetzalcoatlus #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's a 2022 painting of a Thescelosaurus (front lit by the low Sun from the west) amidst the Tanis devastation caused by the end Cretaceous Chicxulub asteroid impact (the orange glow from the south). Also features are Triceratops and Quetzalcoatlus.
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Chicxulub #Thescelosaurus #Tanis #Triceratops #Quetzalcoatlus #JurassicWorld
"The questions swirling around DePalma necessarily implicate his most fundamental claim: the legitimacy of Tanis as the single site known to record the last moments of the Cretaceous."
Kerry Howley digs up the dirt on the #Tanis controversy in the #paleontology world: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/tanis-site-controversy-paleontology-fossils-during-depalma.html
#Longreads #Journalism #Reporting #Science #Research #Dinosaurs #Academia
"Who Owns #Tanis 's Secrets? #Paleontology’s Biggest Controversy" on the K-Pg extinction event as observed in #NorthDakota #Fossils
To link spherules found at the #Tanis site to the K-Pg would require that their composition match a melted mixture of CM- or CR-chondrite from the impactor and the Yucatán Platform limestone it landed on.
So far as I am aware, that has not so far been done.
I read people talking about the #Tanis site in #NorthDakota again.
For those unaware:
This is a place where there was a mass burial of fish roughly 66 million years ago.
It has been suggested to be associated with the K-Pg impact.
I urge caution about that interpretation.
At the Tanis site's distance from #Chicxulub; the first shock from the impact - and presumably any associated seiche - would have happened before any spherules from the impact had time to fall to the ground.
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I'm too tired to come up with any witty commentary about this. Just sad and disgusted.
Brief summary: paleontologist Robert #DePalma, who shares his cousin Brian's cinematic instincts, made a big spash a few years ago with the discovery of the "Tanis" site, which appears to preserve the day of the #Chicxulub impact. Since then he's milked it in the media for all it's worth. Well, as much as most scientists dislike that kind of behavior, it's how you keep the grant money rolling in. #Dinosaurs are maybe more popular than ever, but they're lousy at paying their own bills.
He's made many dubious claims before about the site, many carefully hedged so he could retract them later. It's a dangerous game. This time, it very much looks like he's done something much worse.
#Tanis is real, and it's a remarkable discovery. DePalma's inability to distinguish between flashy PR and outright fraud will accomplish nothing but tarnishing all the real #paleontology work done at the site, by anyone, for years to come. Good scientists like #During will suffer the consequences.
Yeah. Don't do that.