Opinion: You won’t find wonder on Twitter. You have to dig for that.
By David Von Drehle David Von Drehle Columnist focusing on national affairs and politics Email Bio Follow Columnist April 9 at 5:58 PM These are the days of miracles and wonders, as Paul Simon once sang. News of one such marvel took me on a bright spring morning to the paleontology labs of the University of Kansas in Lawrence. There I found myself looking with awe at the fossilized bones of an ancient paddlefish.
This fish is one of a trove of fossils discovered by KU graduate student Robert DePalma at a site in North Dakota. Should the site prove to contain all that DePalma claims, it would be among the most important finds in history, a vivid document from the very day that doomed the dinosaurs. One of the astonishments of these times is just how large a half-century has become. A young paleontologist working the same sparse, gray land 50 years ago could have unearthed this fossil bed without the knowledge necessary to read its amazing story. The Apollo missions to the moon had just awakened the scientific community to the idea of space as a sort of shooting gallery in which the Earth was the target of frequent incoming shots.
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