In an archeological dig done by the University of California Berkeley. This article begins with a story; a story of how the dinosaurs died. We've all heard about the meteor that killed the dinosaurs and destroyed the earth as it once was. Fire rained down from the skies, and the seas become massive walls of 30 feet. It was the first mass extinction that our earth encountered, but certainly not the last. Scientist for the last hundreds of years have been finding fossils to tell the story of what happened back then. They've uncovered dinosaur bones, plant fossils, and other things that tell us what happened so many years ago. Now a new gravesite has been found. A result they believe receding water and fish that were pelted by glass beads burying them into the mud. These animals were then covered with gravel, sand, and sediment sealing from the modern world for millions of years.
This fossilized graveyard was a mix of fish stacked atop one another and mixed with burned tree trunks, conifer branches, other dead mammals, mosasaur bones, insects, a partial carcass of a Triceratops, and a mixture of marine microorganisms. These findings have allowed paleontologist Robert DePalma to conclude that "there was a killing field laid down soon after the asteroid impact that eventually led to the extinction of all ground-dwelling dinosaurs"
This new gravesite has been the first mass death assemblage of organisms that anyone has found that is associated with the K-T boundry, which is the end of the Cretaceous period. This grave is unique in the fact that no other K-T boundry section on Earth can you see a collection of organisms that were at different stages of life that died at the same time on the same day.
This new evidence has led scientists to connect it with the evidence they previously had of the asteroid that led to the earths first extinction. They describe it as "asteroid or comet strike off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago. That impact created a huge crater, called Chicxulub, in the ocean floor and sent vaporized rock and cubic miles of asteroid dust into the atmosphere. The cloud eventually enveloped Earth, setting the stage for Earth's last mass extinction." This new gravesite provides some fascinating insights to the beginning of the earth's journey and what happened during that time.
Overall, in this article there is no problem the main purpose of this article is to inform people of the new information that has presented itself. The main idea of this article is that Archeologists have found a new dinosaur gravesite that has led to new information about the Cretaceous period, and allows us to better understand how these organisms died.
The audience should care about this article because it enables us to have a better understanding of what happened. We've all heard the stories about the dinosaurs dying, but through this new gravesite it allows us to see how their death happened and what it was like in that time period. It also helps to deny some claims about the dinosaur time that are false. The audience for this particular article I would say is people that are involved in the science community, but could also be for people not interested in science. Those involved in the science community are going to be better able to understand this article as it does have some complex language, but its also relatively easy for someone not involved in the science community to understand.
