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Tanis

[tey-nis]

noun

  1. an ancient city in Lower Egypt, in the Nile delta.



Tanis

/ ˈteɪnɪs /

noun

  1. Biblical name: Zoanan ancient city located in the E part of the Nile delta: abandoned after the 6th century ad ; at one time the capital of Egypt

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

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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