Agonized pose tells of dinosaur death throes

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The earliest feathered dinosaur Archaeopteryx (plumage not shown). Drawn from specimen at Humboldt Museum Berlin. The skull is about six inches long. Credit: UC Berkeley
The earliest feathered dinosaur, Archaeopteryx (plumage not shown). Drawn from specimen at Humboldt Museum, Berlin. The skull is about six inches long. Credit: UC Berkeley

The peculiar pose of many fossilized dinosaurs, with wide-open mouth, head thrown back and recurved tail, likely resulted from the agonized death throes typical of brain damage and asphyxiation, according to two paleontologists.


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