Dinosaur boneyard yields eggs, skin, and maybe bits of that asteroid that killed 'em off

Most experts agree that a six-mile-wide hunk of space debris is responsible for a particularly bad day roughly 66 million years ago. After all, there’s a crater off the Yucatán Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico that measures around 100 miles across by 20 miles deep, and copious geologic evidence that indicates a resultant tsunami that spread from the impact site to nearly the modern Canadian border. But although we are confident the extinction level event originated far above our distant, mouse-sized mammalian relatives’ heads, there isn’t a consensus as to whether it stemmed from an asteroid, comet, or whatever QAnon folks are claiming this week—probably a time-traveling Nancy Pelosi, or something.

According to a recent New York Times report, however, we may be getting close to identifying the extraterrestrial culprit thanks to a creepy-ass dinosaur graveyard 2,000 miles away from the impact site. At a dig site in North Dakota, paleontologists claim to have uncovered debris containing “mineralogy [that] points to the presence of an asteroid” launched into the air during the asteroid/comet/Pelosi-engineered Doomsday device.