A fossilised leg of a dinosaur that died on the day the Chicxulub asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago has been unearthed alongside a fragment of the space rock that killed it, experts have revealed. The leg fossil, found at the Tanis site in , belonged to Thescelosaurus, a small herbivore, and is likely to have been ripped off after the asteroid hit and caused a flash flood. Palaeontologists say it's the first dinosaur victim of the famous asteroid strike – which left a 93-mile-wide impact crater in what is today the Gulf of Mexico – that has ever been discovered.
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