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'Kitchen science' reveals dinosaurs died in agony
sfgate.com ^ | June 6, 2007 | David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor

Posted on 06/06/2007 9:45:09 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp

A dinosaur mystery that puzzled paleontologists for nearly a century has been solved by a pound of beef tendons from a butcher, a collection of dead hawks and a brace of frozen quail, two investigative scientists in Berkeley and Idaho say.

The puzzle: Why were fossils of those ancient creatures so often discovered buried with their heads, necks and feet arched bizarrely backward into a distorted posture unlike anything seen alive?

The answer: Kevin Padian, a noted dinosaur expert and curator of the Museum of Paleontology at UC Berkeley, and Cynthia Marshall Faux, a veterinarian and paleontologist at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Mont., say the beasts were suffering in violent death throes as they perished -- asphyxiated by volcanic gases or ash falls, poisoned by unknown toxins or drowned in swamps or deepwater lakes.

It was knowledge of animals in veterinary clinics plus a few "kitchen science" experiments that led to this conclusion, say the researchers, and it should provide a new understanding of the dinosaurs' environments millions of years ago. It also adds support for the once-controversial claim that the ancient dinosaurs were all warm-blooded just as modern birds are, and unlike the ancestral crocodiles and lizards whose blood still runs cold today.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; crevo; dinosaurs; godsgravesglyphs; greatdying; kevinpadian; paleontology
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SunkenCiv and Blam, here's one for your ping lists.
1 posted on 06/06/2007 9:45:10 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: SunkenCiv; blam

here you go


2 posted on 06/06/2007 9:46:57 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
heads, necks and feet arched bizarrely backward into a distorted posture

My Mom always said: "It's probably just gas".

3 posted on 06/06/2007 9:49:58 PM PDT by RedQuill
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I can’t help but wonder if they would be so condescending as to describe this as ‘kitchen science’ if this fundamental work had been done by a man.


4 posted on 06/06/2007 9:52:40 PM PDT by null and void ("Wherever liberty has sprouted around the world, we find American blood at its roots.")
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

...almost as if there was a catastrophic flood...or something...


5 posted on 06/06/2007 9:53:23 PM PDT by El Cid (Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon HIM while HE is near)
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To: DaveLoneRanger

Hmmm, what possible could have caused drowning, and/or ash from volcanoes killing so many fossils?


6 posted on 06/06/2007 9:54:13 PM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: DaveLoneRanger

Ping

Found this rather interesting.


7 posted on 06/06/2007 9:55:11 PM PDT by uptoolate (If it sounds absurd, 51% chance it was sarcasm.)
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"...almost as if there was a catastrophic flood...or something..."

It was the Chicxulub Impact 65 million years ago.

8 posted on 06/06/2007 9:58:08 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam
BTW, do you know of any dinosaur fossils at exactly the same level as the K-T iridium clay layer?
9 posted on 06/06/2007 10:02:45 PM PDT by null and void ("Wherever liberty has sprouted around the world, we find American blood at its roots.")
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Nature is cruel? Duh.

And dooooo-gooders would rather let deer die of starvation and disease due to overpopulating their range, rather than let hunters cull the herd.

Ever see that video of the killer whale tossing the seal up in the air, like a cat playing with a mouse?

Never mind this. It's ok if Nature is far more cruel than humans. Nature, Good. Humans, BAD.

10 posted on 06/06/2007 10:03:14 PM PDT by FlyVet
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

What ever happened to rigor mortis? Seems like a perfectly acceptable constuct to me.


12 posted on 06/06/2007 10:29:00 PM PDT by Reverend Bob (Read my lips, no more Pawlenty.)
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To: null and void

They would. The term describes experiments not done in a lab with formal funding. It’s been in use for years.


13 posted on 06/06/2007 10:52:01 PM PDT by sig226 (Where did my tag line go?)
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To: sig226

OK.


14 posted on 06/06/2007 10:55:39 PM PDT by null and void ("Wherever liberty has sprouted around the world, we find American blood at its roots.")
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

My gosh! Scientists still haven’t even figured out if dinosaurs were cold-blooded or warm-blooded, and yet they tell us about all of these other details that they supposedly know. What other basic information don’t they know, and why should I trust them?


15 posted on 06/06/2007 11:18:31 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: vpintheak

Okay, this is just a guess, but maybe they got too close to Al Gore?


16 posted on 06/07/2007 3:42:05 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Some of us like to think of mania as a lifestyle choice....)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

wouldn’t it be stupid to hypothesize that every human skeleton dug up had died at the same time , or even within the the same decade or century? If dinosaurs supposedly were around for 10’s of millions of years, then many, many more individuals would have died one by one over that time than would have died in some “final cataclysm.”


17 posted on 06/07/2007 4:00:16 AM PDT by gusopol3
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Thanks my_pointy_head_is_sharp!

Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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18 posted on 06/07/2007 7:40:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated May 31, 2007.)
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Thanks again, MPHIS.
 
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19 posted on 06/07/2007 7:41:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated May 31, 2007.)
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"asphyxiated by volcanic gases or ash falls, poisoned by unknown toxins or drowned in swamps or deepwater lakes."

Or drowned in a BIG flood.

20 posted on 06/07/2007 7:43:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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