To: SeekAndFind
Getting sucked into a mud pit would do that.
2 posted on
02/23/2012 12:58:53 PM PST by
sodpoodle
( Newt - God has tested him for a reason...... to bring America back from the brink.)
To: SeekAndFind
A fossil of the Compsognathus longipes from the "Solnhofen Archipelago" shows the twisted posture often seen in dinosaur remains.
ARTICLE CONCLUDES THUSLY:
Biomechanics in Watery Graves Convinced that the back arching was generated, not by death throes, but by postmortem alterations of a decaying carcass, the researchers made experiments with plucked chicken necks and thoraxes, immersed in water. Submersed in water, the necks spontaneously arched backwards for more than 90°. Ongoing decay for some months even increased the degree of the pose. Thorough preparation and dissection combined with testing revealed that a special ligament connecting the vertebrae at their upper side was responsible for the recurved necks in the chickens. This ligament, the so-called Ligamentum elasticum, is pre-stressed in living chickens, but also in dead ones.
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"A strong Ligamentum elasticum was essential for all long necked dinosaurs with a long tail. The preloaded ligament helped them saving energy in their terrestrial mode of life. Following their death, at which they were immersed in water, the stored energy along the vertebra was strong enough to arch back the spine, increasingly so as more and more muscles and other soft parts were decaying" conclude the researchers. "It is a special highlight that, in the Compsognathus specimen, these gradual steps of recurvature can be substantiated, too. Therefore,
biomechanics is ruling the postmortem weird posture of a carcass in a watery grave, not death throes.
To: SeekAndFind
This theory seems consistent with a global flood, which some contend wiped out most creatures.
4 posted on
02/23/2012 1:07:08 PM PST by
Theo
(May Rome decrease and Christ increase.)
To: SeekAndFind
Very interesting. The Truth shall set us all free!
6 posted on
02/23/2012 1:16:10 PM PST by
vpintheak
(Occupy your Brain!)
To: SeekAndFind
Most of the dinosaur fossils that they find are a result of water action. In fact, a lot of times, the bones are all mixed up so badly that they have no idea which bones belong to which creature when dinosaurs have died together. When asked what would cause this, scientists say “a local flood came through here.” The problem with this is that they have to say the same thing for virtually every dinosaur bed across the globe. The idea that there were many local floods across the globe to kill dinosaurs becomes a very suspicious explanation. Noah’s flood is actually a better answer for this phenomenon. Noah’s flood is also one of the most historically facts of the ancient world. Virtually every ancient culture has a story of the great flood. Moreover, if a scientist would accept Noah’s flood as a historical fact (which it is), he will have to begin looking at all the sedimentary rock layers in the world a lot differently than just to assume that it took a million years or so for each layer. Mt. St. Helens destroyed the idea that such rock layers required vast aeons of time.
To: SeekAndFind
Being washed to their deaths in a great flood will do that.
8 posted on
02/23/2012 1:21:25 PM PST by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: SeekAndFind
Exactly the same as a Giraffe.
Okay the Giraffe is a tendon ,IIRC,but same result.
Thanks for posting ,mystery solved at last.
9 posted on
02/23/2012 1:33:41 PM PST by
moose07
(The truth will out, one day.)
To: SeekAndFind
13 posted on
02/23/2012 2:05:50 PM PST by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: SeekAndFind
Bigger question: Why do armadillos end up balanced on their backs after being hit by a vehicle?
To: SeekAndFind
I think it’s amazing as all get-out the skeletal remains are even close to being connected. I would think the vast majority of animal remains are scattered to the four winds by scavengers. I never thought about why they are usually bent over backwards like the pic above.
16 posted on
02/23/2012 2:24:27 PM PST by
Cyber Liberty
("If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost." --Winston Churchill)
To: SeekAndFind
There is no theory of Evolution, just a list of creatures Sarah Palin allows to live ...
26 posted on
02/24/2012 6:46:47 AM PST by
Scythian
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