Not germaine to discussion; I think.
Posted on 11/26/2011 6:26:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Recreating the spectacular pose many dinosaurs adopted in death might involve following the simplest of instructions: just add water.
When palaeontologists are lucky enough to find a complete dinosaur skeleton – whether it be a tiny Sinosauropteryx or an enormous Apatosaurus – there's a good chance it will be found with its head thrown backwards and its tail arched upwards – technically known as the opisthotonic death pose. No one is entirely sure why this posture is so common, but Alicia Cutler and colleagues from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, think it all comes down to a dip in the wet stuff.
Cutler placed plucked chickens – both fresh and frozen – on a bed of sand for three months to see if desiccation would lead to muscle contractions that pulled the neck upwards – a previously suggested explanation for the death pose. The chickens decayed without contorting. When seven other chickens were placed into cool, fresh water, however, their necks arched and their heads were thrown back within seconds. Sustained immersion of the birds for up to a month slightly increased the severity of the pose, but the major movement of the head occurred almost immediately.
The result contrasts with a study carried out in 2007 by Cynthia Marshall Faux at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, and Kevin Padian at the University of California in Berkeley. The pair found that salty water did not alter the pose of dead quails. They concluded that the arched back seen in so many fossils was instead the result of the expiring dinosaur's final death throes (Paleobiology, DOI: 10.1666/06015.1) – an idea that was first suggested by pathologist Roy Moodie in 1918.
Why dunking dead birds in water produced different results in the two studies is not clear.
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Read D R Humphreys’ Starlight and Time.
No matter how you cut it, the earth in Genesis 1:2 was covered with water and darkness. Afterwards in Genesis 1:9, dry land appeared. In Genesis Chapter 7, about 1000 years later in Noah’s time, water once again covered the whole earth.
Interesting but the narrator seems to be angry about something.
I merely indicated that I could; NOT that I would.
HUH?
Read Starlight and Time.
Huh; again...
So, how do you drown a fish?
Go back to sleep doofus!
They were buried alive, which is why they wound up fossils.
Just to jump in here, the only things I’m aware of from the Middle Ages are the “great worms” (a.k.a. dragons, worm was another name for them) IOW giant eels (they are extinct now, apart from the occasional “horse eel” in Ireland, and of course the Loch Ness monster) the slaying of which critters in a nearby river would sometimes enter local folklore.
RE: I merely indicated that I could; NOT that I would.
If you could, would you? If not, why not?
There is a book called “The Biblical Flood and the Ice Epoch” that explains the salt in the ocean. Also, some of the hypotheses presented by Immanuel Velikovski would explain it as well.
Right. Excellent answer though.
RE: Not germaine to discussion; I think.
But surely it is germane. If the explanation that a watery death is stupid (your words, not mine), it would be interesting to know WHY it meets the adjective and what is the explanation that best fits the evidecne.
Got your magic undies on too tight? Name some of those errors........ Now lets compare that to the book of Mormon, which scientists are having a very difficult time trying to find any evidence of the Nephite people.
Perhaps I should have said simplistic.
I can give all KINDs of 'alternatives' that can be neither proven or disproven; but why waste my time?
“...translation and transliteration errors...”
Do you people even understand what that means?
It means that the men who translated Greek and Latin ms. into English made errors.
It means that during the 1300 years prior to the printing press’s invention, when the books which make up the Holy Bible were being hand scribed, errors occurred.
It means that if you are serious about bible studies, you’ll seek the truth of the original texts of the Holy Bible, and stop sniping at me.
As for my undies, that is none of your damn business.
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