Jaw-Dropping Fossil Find Contains a Dinosaur Sitting on an Entire Clutch of Eggs

https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 10 MARCH 2021 | CARLY CASSELLA

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

He/she was sitting on the eggs because he/she could not get the SUV going to go out and party. All those dino-SUVs caused the Glow-ball warming that killed the dinos off. Silly dinosaurs!

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[Red Badger]

I really liked that show......................

[DownInFlames]

She died in place, most likely instantly.

[Red Badger]

Most likely poisonous superheated gases................

[Migraine]

We could be more certain about the cause of the encasement if the article had stated the type of material in which the fossils were found. Was it mud or was it volcanic ash? That would tell the tale.

[mewzilla]

Not the Mama!

[UnwashedPeasant]

Based on the artist depiction, the dinosaur was colored.

I think this makes the cause of death obvious.

/s

[ladyrustic]

Mother birds are amazingly devoted to their young. I once saw a mother duck trying to lead her 10 or so ducklings across a six lane rush hour highway. The mother was ducked down, is the only way I can describe it, and moving slowly, the chicks close behind. I only saw them for a split second as I flew by them in my car, just missing them. I highly doubt she made it, the traffic was too thick, but I will always remember her courage in not abandoning those chicks.

[mass55th]

"Whatever disaster was that hit them, she did not move!................."

LOL. As Hillary and Chelsea would say..."She persisted."

[carcraft]

Was the Democratic Convention in town?

[faucetman]

How big of a pan will I need to fry up those eggs?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

[sauropod]

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[Monkey Face]

Green eggs and ham in the same nest. Good choice SC!

‘Face

;o]

[SunkenCiv]

The chicken was involved, the pig was committed! ;^)

[Monkey Face]

That’s the TROOF! Thhpbppbpbpbpbpth!

;o])

[21twelve]

“Whatever disaster was that hit them, she did not move!.................”

While this entire image of “real life” is amazing, the disaster and their death is even more interesting. It couldn’t have been a mudslide or anything too violent as that would have disturbed everything. Maybe a volcanic ash deposit that gently covered them like a snow storm - but then had them trapped and preserved?

A regular snow or ice storm could have killed them on the nest - but not preserved them.

[21twelve]

I think they just looked up Cassawary in the dictionary and painted it like those huge (and sometimes deadly) birds in Australia.

[SunkenCiv]

Good call, killed by the gas, stayed for the ash burial and fossilization.

Early volcano victims discovered
BBC | Monday, May 3, 1999 | editors
Posted on 9/4/2004, 1:59:51 AM by SunkenCiv
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1207091/posts

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

There’s this one;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXwzSPc0FoA