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[SunkenCiv]

Gosh, it's almost as if every dinosaur with opisthotonos died of the same cause. :')

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[maryz]

but also advances the argument that these creatures may have had hot blood pumping through their veins.

!!! Hmmm. Hillary: I'm Grateful to Have a Passionate Husband???? Sorry . . . I couldn't help myself! ;-)

[colorado tanker]

Adding to the intrigue is that opisthotonos is usually seen in warm-blooded animals like birds and mammals but not reptiles. Faux’s paper on opisthotonos, published in March, rethinks dinosaurs not just as having died for reasons other than meteor impacts and volcanic eruptions but also advances the argument that these creatures may have had hot blood pumping through their veins.

Interesting.

[Does so]

These fossils didn't ALL die at the same moment, in the same position, of the same cause, or even in the same Era. A form of rigor mortis is credited with the pose.

I'll apply Occam's Razor to say that the heaviest part of the body was stuck on the bottom of a moving water source with the head trailing behind—thereafter the body was buried by mud eventually—protected from scavengers. (Assuring the complete fossils that demonstrate the pose so well.)

How'd I do?

:-)

[Hegemony Cricket]

“Dinosaur Death Throes” = great name for a garage band...

[SunkenCiv]

different era:

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