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To: SunkenCiv

Seems odd, that there are fossil remains in large numbers of these huge animals in close proximity to each other, seemingly buried rather rapidly, their skeletal remains largely intact, not gnawed or scattered by scavenging carnivores.


22 posted on 06/25/2010 9:23:26 PM PDT by Elsiejay (.)
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To: Elsiejay

Fossilization is rare, and I’m of the view that death by rapid burial (as with the Burgess Shale, or death assemblages such as have been found in volcanic strata) or burial not long after death are generally the best explanations. OTOH, in Pompeii there are plaster of Paris casts made inside cavities left when buried victims’ remains decomposed — no bones. So, even that doesn’t happen every time.


29 posted on 06/26/2010 8:56:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: Elsiejay; SunkenCiv
Seems odd, that there are fossil remains in large numbers of these huge animals in close proximity to each other, seemingly buried rather rapidly, their skeletal remains largely intact, not gnawed or scattered by scavenging carnivores.

Their descendants live on today. And they're still grouping up and jumping off cliffs en masse.

32 posted on 06/26/2010 9:17:23 AM PDT by bigheadfred (I said free association. Not freely associate.)
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