Tanis

He had also played Tanis, a member of the Ocampa species, in an episode of “Star Trek: Voyager.”

It adds that investigators found “evidence that the isotope data existed in 2017, before During visited Tanis, so there appeared to be no motive for fabricating the data.”

The finding comes from Tanis, a site in North Dakota leased by DePalma that preserves a trove of fossils evidently deposited on the day of the catastrophe 66 million years ago.

During, who worked alongside DePalma at Tanis in 2017, published the springtime finding with Ahlberg and colleagues in Nature in February 2022, 2 months after DePalma’s paper.

During fieldwork in 2017, Pim Kaskes, a geologist at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and an author of the new research, collected some fine-grained samples from a geological formation in North Dakota known as Tanis, which yielded a treasure trove of fossils.