“... putting up with the stench. Probably not an inch of land without a dead dinosaur!...”
Oh no, they were buried very rapidly...had to have fossils , you know.
Speaking of stench - Mary Schweitzer and her group noted that this particular dig site smelled like rotting flesh...
Dinosaur Shocker - 68 million year old T Rex w/ red blood cells
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/10021606.html#ixzz0VZChRzSL