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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Mondo absurdo.
Thanks for the ping!
It occurs to me that people who say all the dinosaurs died when they got hit in the eye by a pizza pie, are full of it.
If all the big snakes had died, they would be called dinosaurs.
But no, we’ve got snakes big enough (mean enough too) to eat man sized critters, and do we call them dinosaurs?
Of course not!
Everybody knows that all the dinosaurs died out billions of years ago when some craxy idgit was throwing pizza pies around!
Ask any caveman who’s tried it and he’ll tell you, giant snake tastes just like t-Rex. (which we all know tastes like chicken, or ‘possum, depending on where you are from)
One very large one. As a matter of fact, I find the conclusion much more interesting and believable with the biblical explanation than the ill-fitted evolution explanation. how amazing (and terrifying) is it to think about all that life buried in all that sediment and upheaval. which fully explains supposedly wierd evidence that the other side tries to explain away.
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