While in the car, I listened to the Sunday story on NPR’s Up First podcast. This week, they connected with paleontologist Ken Lacovara. In 2007, he found a “bone bed” in southern New Jersey, which contains more than 100,000 fossils of more than 100 species. Remarkably, these animals all died the very day that an asteroid hit the earth 66 million years ago. The bone bed contains iridium, a rare element most common in asteroids and can tell us a lot about the initial day of the earth’s 5th mass extinction event.
This is a 16 minute listen, and I highly recommend it. You can listen here.
— Renee Roederer
Smuggling Grace 