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.
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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If it'd been a snake, it woulda bit me!
ELEVEN FEET?!!! Amazing!!
I don’t buy that it was 67 million years ago...
This reminds me of something, but I can't quite put my finger on it...
Why’s that?
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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“a sudden avalanche of mud or sand”
Like a big flood?
One of them 4000 year old earthers?
Perhaps Pompeii?
i love how its always a ‘sudden avalanche of mud’. strange how that happened so much EVERYWHERE. yet no flood.
Looks that way.
How many floods do you think there have been in the history of the world?
LOL!
There are floods all over the world every year.
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