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In Fossil Find, 'Anaconda' Meets 'Jurassic Park'(Snake Devouring Baby Dinosaur Eggs)
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| 2/02/2010
| NPR
Posted on 03/02/2010 9:37:54 AM PST by Dallas59
Scientists have discovered a macabre death scene that took place 67 million years ago. The setting was a nest, in which a baby dinosaur had just hatched from an egg, only to face an 11-foot-long snake waiting to devour it.
The moment was frozen forever when, apparently, the nest was buried in a sudden avalanche of mud or sand and everything was fossilized.
Scientists have discovered a macabre death scene that took place 67 million years ago. The setting was a nest, in which a baby dinosaur had just hatched from an egg, only to face an 11-foot-long snake waiting to devour it.
The moment was frozen forever when, apparently, the nest was buried in a sudden avalanche of mud or sand and everything was fossilized.
The discovery was made by Jeffrey Wilson, a professor at the University of Michigan. He had heard about the amazing fields of dinosaur eggs discovered in India.
Wilson visited a scientist in India who showed him a broken, fossilized egg encased in a briefcase-sized block of stone. He leaned in to take a closer look and saw something else.
"I was stunned when I saw it," Wilson says, "because, sort of leaping out at me, were the peculiar articulations between the vertebrae of a snake, and so I had no idea that there would be a snake there but there it was sitting in front of me."
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TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: archaeology; dinosaur; dinosaurs; fossil; godsgravesglyphs; india; paleontology; snake; tasteslikechicken
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03/02/2010 9:37:54 AM PST
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Dallas59
To: Dallas59; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows
"I was stunned when I saw it," Wilson says, "because, sort of leaping out at me, were the peculiar articulations between the vertebrae of a snake, and so I had no idea that there would be a snake there but there it was sitting in front of me." If it'd been a snake, it woulda bit me!
To: Dallas59
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posted on
03/02/2010 9:43:24 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Dallas59
a baby dinosaur had just hatched from an egg, only to face an 11-foot-long snake waiting to devour it ELEVEN FEET?!!! Amazing!!
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posted on
03/02/2010 9:44:29 AM PST
by
subterfuge
(BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
03/02/2010 9:48:03 AM PST
by
hsrazorback1
(Seek truth.)
To: Dallas59
I don’t buy that it was 67 million years ago...
To: Dallas59
the nest was buried in a sudden avalanche of mud or sand and everything was fossilized. This reminds me of something, but I can't quite put my finger on it...
To: nysuperdoodle
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posted on
03/02/2010 9:56:27 AM PST
by
stormer
To: Dallas59
Cool find but 11 foot snake is puny, hee hee. It would of been better if it was 50 foot monster snake.
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posted on
03/02/2010 9:58:52 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: Disambiguator
You mean something like a mudslide?
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posted on
03/02/2010 9:58:53 AM PST
by
stormer
To: Dallas59
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“a sudden avalanche of mud or sand”
Like a big flood?
To: stormer
One of them 4000 year old earthers?
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posted on
03/02/2010 9:59:50 AM PST
by
jrg
To: Disambiguator
"This reminds me of something, but I can't quite put my finger on it..." Perhaps Pompeii?
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posted on
03/02/2010 10:01:14 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Dallas59
i love how its always a ‘sudden avalanche of mud’. strange how that happened so much EVERYWHERE. yet no flood.
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posted on
03/02/2010 10:04:30 AM PST
by
applpie
(u)
To: Joe 6-pack
How many times do you think that poor fellow has been photographed? Here's one of him I took last October...
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posted on
03/02/2010 10:07:10 AM PST
by
stormer
To: jrg
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posted on
03/02/2010 10:07:36 AM PST
by
stormer
To: stormer
This was Pompeii's Michael Vick...
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posted on
03/02/2010 10:08:45 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: applpie
How many floods do you think there have been in the history of the world?
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posted on
03/02/2010 10:08:48 AM PST
by
stormer
To: Joe 6-pack
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posted on
03/02/2010 10:09:11 AM PST
by
stormer
To: applpie
There are floods all over the world every year.
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posted on
03/02/2010 10:10:22 AM PST
by
dirtboy
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