Around 80 million years ago, a stretch of tropical coastline in what is now northeastern Italy was lashed by monsoon rains and tropical cyclones. Those storms swept dinosaur carcasses, crocodiles, plants and river mud onto a tidal flat, where the tides and a film of microbes sealed everything aw...
Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-07-storms-built-graveyard-ancient-monsoons.html)