Scientists have discovered a macabre death scene that took place 67 million years ago. The setting was a nest, in which a baby dinosaur had just hatched from an egg, only to face an 11-foot-long snake waiting to devour it.
Posted on 03/02/2010 9:37:54 AM PST by Dallas59
Scientists have discovered a macabre death scene that took place 67 million years ago. The setting was a nest, in which a baby dinosaur had just hatched from an egg, only to face an 11-foot-long snake waiting to devour it.
The moment was frozen forever when, apparently, the nest was buried in a sudden avalanche of mud or sand and everything was fossilized.
Scientists have discovered a macabre death scene that took place 67 million years ago. The setting was a nest, in which a baby dinosaur had just hatched from an egg, only to face an 11-foot-long snake waiting to devour it.
The moment was frozen forever when, apparently, the nest was buried in a sudden avalanche of mud or sand and everything was fossilized.
The discovery was made by Jeffrey Wilson, a professor at the University of Michigan. He had heard about the amazing fields of dinosaur eggs discovered in India.
Wilson visited a scientist in India who showed him a broken, fossilized egg encased in a briefcase-sized block of stone. He leaned in to take a closer look and saw something else.
"I was stunned when I saw it," Wilson says, "because, sort of leaping out at me, were the peculiar articulations between the vertebrae of a snake, and so I had no idea that there would be a snake there but there it was sitting in front of me."
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I wonder how sure they are that the hatched dinosaur was a plant eater. Maybe it was a baby t-rex or raptor, and the snake was killed or disabled by momma, and left for the baby’s first meal.
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Oh man! I remember THAT day! Whoa!
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Wonder why they are so sure that the snake supposedly waiting to devour the newly hatched babies wasn’t actually already dead, a gift from Mommy to her sure-to-be hungry babies? I had a female cat that used to bring our family food offerings, including the occasional snake.
11 feet is not so big. My Yellow Anaconda will get to be 10 and he is a smaller cousin to the Green.
You and me both.
That too is a great possibility. Who can say? In either case, it is quite a find.
Ping?
Well, yeah. I was thinking that in the Dinosaur Age 11 ft. is rather hum-drum. An 11-footer could have been swallowed up by pre-historic birds.
A guy down the street from me when I was a kid had an 18 ft. anaconda (late 60s). My attempt at humor just fell flat I guess.
Yup, ping.
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Hello, my precioussssss. The government sent me to enforccccce the one baby per dinosaur family policcccccee.
According to The Bible, just the one...
A lot more now than he ever was when he was alive....
Well, that settles it then.
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