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''The Flood of Death'': A Mass Dino Grave in Canada
ICR ^ | JUNE 19, 2025 | FRANK SHERWIN

Posted on 07/11/2025 7:09:16 PM PDT by lasereye

Paleontologists in Alberta, Canada, have recently unearthed “a mass grave on a monumental scale.”1 The BBC story speaks of

Thousands of dinosaurs [that] were buried here, killed in an instant on a day of utter devastation.

Now, a group of palaeontologists have come to Pipestone Creek - appropriately nicknamed the “River of Death” - to help solve a 72-million-year-old enigma: how did they die?1

The question and answer regarding the mass dinosaur death is found in the same sentence above. It was a massive flood (“river”) of death that killed them 4,500 years ago. Unfortunately, paleontologists will not accept this hypothesis and unnecessarily place the event many millions of years ago.2,3

In Michael Benton’s paleontology text in the section on dinosaur extinction, he lists “three current models to explain the KPg [Cretaceous-Paleogene or K-T extinction] event.”4 These are the impact hypothesis (i.e., the giant asteroid impact supposedly 66 million years ago5), the volcanic hypothesis, and the multiple causes hypothesis. In the multiple causes hypothesis he mentions “evidence of numerous killing agencies, including impact, marine regression [sea level drop], volcanic activity, and changes in climate.”4 Alas, the most obvious “agency” is not mentioned: a worldwide deluge.6

Indeed, on the same page of Benton’s text he states,

Over the years, more than a hundred hypotheses have been presented for the extinction of the dinosaurs....From about 1920, dozens of hypotheses were put forward, ranging from the physiological (slipped discs, excessive hormone production, loss of their sex drive) to the ecological (competition with mammals, change in plant food), from the climatic (too hot, too cold, too wet) to the terrestrial catastrophic (vulcanism, magnetic reversal), from the topographic (marine regression, mountain building) to the extraterrestrial (sunspots, cometary impact).4

As one can see, any explanation is valid—no matter how outrageous—except the most obvious: a global flood.7,8

A section of the BBC article has a most telling title: “A Sudden Devastating Event.”1 Morelle and Francis state,

“We believe that this was a herd on a seasonal migration that got tangled up in some catastrophic event that effectively wiped out, if not the entire herd, then a good proportion of it,” Prof [Emily] Bamforth says.

All the evidence suggests that this catastrophic event was a flash flood - perhaps a storm over the mountains that sent an unstoppable torrent of water towards the herd, ripping trees from their roots and shifting boulders.

Prof Bamforth says the Pachyrhinosaurus wouldn't have stood a chance. “These animals are not able to move very fast because of their sheer numbers, and they're very top heavy - and really not very good at swimming at all.”

Rocks found at the site show the swirls of sediment from the fast-flowing water churning everything up. It’s as if the destruction is frozen in time as a wave in the stone.1

To be fair, as one can see, they do mention a flood—a local flash flood.

One cannot help but be amazed that when viewing Pipestone Creek and other massive graveyards, the paleontological community is so blind that they are unwilling to consider the obvious Genesis Flood explanation for dinosaur fossils. This is a clear example of what is called confirmation bias—the propensity to interpret information or evidence in ways consistent with existing beliefs while rejecting others. Wearing such blinders has significantly influenced the interpretation of the fossil record for over a century and a half so that the worldwide sedimentary formations are only considered in a uniformitarian context. But as the late Henry Morris, the founder of ICR, stated in 1974, “dinosaur graveyards are found on every continent, all over the world. Again the uniformitarian is challenged to point to any such phenomena occurring anywhere in the world today.”9

Virtually every dinosaur fossil ever found is ensconced in sedimentary or (rarely) volcanic sediments, indicating a sudden and catastrophic deposition.10 This is particularly true with rich Cretaceous dinosaur beds (e.g., the Lance and Ferris Formations in Wyoming and the Hell Creek Formation in Montana).11 So why would paleontologists entertain bizarre extinction explanations such as slipped discs, sunspots, or magnetic reversals? Because if a scientist dismisses the global Flood out of hand, then anything goes when trying to explain the dinosaur demise. Anything.

The paleontologists are calling the Canadian mass grave the “River of Death,” but it should more accurately be called “The Flood of Death.”


1. Morelle, R. and A. Francis. Solving the Mystery of a Dinosaur Mass Grave at the ‘River of Death.’ BBC. Posted on BBC.com 2025.
2. Thomas, B. Published Reports of Original Soft Tissue Fossils. Posted on ICR.org.
3. Thomas, B. Did Natural Gas Take Millions of Years to Form? Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org August 8, 2011.
4. Benton, M. 2015. Vertebrate Paleontology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 262.
5. Clarey, T. 2017. Do the Data Support a Large Meteorite Impact at Chicxulub? Answers Research Journal. 10: 71–88.
6. Clarey, T. 2017. South America Shows the Flood Progression. Acts & Facts. 46 (3): 9.
7. Morris, J. 2014. Traditions of a Global Flood. Acts & Facts. 43 (11): 15.
9. Clarey, T. Ichthyosaur Graveyard Explained by the Flood. Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org May 8, 2025.
0. Morris, H. 1974. Scientific Creationism. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 99.
10. Clarey, T. 2015. Dinosaur Fossils in Late-Flood Rocks. Acts & Facts. 44 (2): 16.
11. Clarey, T. 2015. The Hell Creek Formation: The Last Gasp of the Pre-Flood Dinosaurs. Creation Research Society Quarterly. 51: 286–298.
* Dr. Sherwin is a science news writer at the Institute for Creation Research. He earned an M.A. in invertebrate zoology from the University of Northern Colorado and received an honorary doctorate of science from Pensacola Christian College.


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KEYWORDS: belongsinreligion; creation; crevo; dinosaurs; flood; fossils; genesisflood; intelligentdesign
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I decided to ask AI about discoveries of a whole group of dinosaur fossils who died in a single event. This is what it spit out in response to "discoveries of an entire group of dinosaurs who died at the same time" (no mention of a flood):

There are several notable discoveries of entire groups of dinosaurs that died at the same time, often referred to as mass death events or bonebeds:

Under the global flood scenario as described in Genesis, the animals would have all been moving to higher ground as the flood waters rose. So they would have been congregated in the same location when they died. That also explains why land animals are found at higher levels in the ground than aquatic life. The fish obviously weren't moving to higher ground.

If you go to the BBC link, the explanation for how thousands of this species of dinosaur all were together when the flood hit is that they were migrating.

1 posted on 07/11/2025 7:09:16 PM PDT by lasereye
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To: lasereye

Genesis 1:2 And the earth *became* (was) without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Lucifer was cast down/overthrown... and the creation shows the scars.


2 posted on 07/11/2025 7:15:05 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: lasereye

(The question and answer regarding the mass dinosaur death is found in the same sentence above. It was a massive flood (“river”) of death that killed them 4,500 years ago.)

4,500 years ago?????


3 posted on 07/11/2025 7:15:49 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. Onw!as a cylindrical object)
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To: lasereye

River of Death!

Climate Crisis

SUVs have traveled back in time to destroy, destroy, destroy.


4 posted on 07/11/2025 7:17:31 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try - AND - Every Time You Fall Down, Get The Frak Up! )
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To: lasereye

The standard belief system for academics is a religion.

If you show evidence the flood of Noah’s time killed the dinosaurs, they refuse to accept the facts.


5 posted on 07/11/2025 7:20:41 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: lasereye

Something else non-indigenous Canadians can beat themselves up over.


6 posted on 07/11/2025 7:21:01 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: lasereye

Trump caused by downsizing the EPA


7 posted on 07/11/2025 7:22:03 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (“I don’t really care, Margaret.”)
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To: lasereye

No need to worry.

Canada’s new prime minister has already apologized for all the dead dinosaurs.


8 posted on 07/11/2025 7:24:03 PM PDT by x
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To: reasonisfaith

The dinosaurs were long gone at the time of Noah’s flood... Noah’s flood was NOT about killing off the dinosaurs, it was about destroying the hybrids born of the fallen angels that came to earth to pollute the blood line to Christ.

Book of Jude. And of course Genesis ... Noah and his family were the only Adamic family that had pure pedigree .. for the line to Christ...

Study more.


9 posted on 07/11/2025 7:26:57 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: reasonisfaith

They argue soft tissue from dinosaurs have survived millions of years. You have to suspend common sense to be an atheist/evolutionist.


10 posted on 07/11/2025 7:31:44 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
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To: reasonisfaith

Noah didn’t have two of each dinosaur species on the ark?


11 posted on 07/11/2025 7:37:33 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: lasereye

Sad, just as they were going through Rebirth.


12 posted on 07/11/2025 7:39:05 PM PDT by Cold Heart (BP S GW)
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To: lasereye

Drumheller?


13 posted on 07/11/2025 7:47:20 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: gundog

Read the Genesis Flood by Henry Morris, one of the best books you will ever read. Also The Genesis Record
By him.


14 posted on 07/11/2025 7:57:58 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Mean Daddy

(They argue soft tissue from dinosaurs have survived millions of years)

I saw the other day a dinosaur fossil with soft tissue was found.

https://youtu.be/REJk9cuXG98?si=r3pLUf-RmW0_q_1v


15 posted on 07/11/2025 8:03:32 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. Onw!as a cylindrical object)
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To: gundog

Not if they were already extinct before the Flood.


16 posted on 07/11/2025 8:51:20 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I tried pushing the envelope but it remained stationery.)
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To: lasereye

So how did a marine animal die from a flood? It’s in an ocean.


17 posted on 07/11/2025 8:52:20 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I tried pushing the envelope but it remained stationery.)
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To: BipolarBob

Implicit in this thread’s hypothesis is that whichever species are to be found in the fossil bed were extant at the time of the Biblical flood. So, what happened to ‘em?


18 posted on 07/11/2025 9:22:32 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Just mythoughts

That’s true.


19 posted on 07/11/2025 9:53:53 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: lasereye

There was a dinosaur convention, thousands came because Zeppelin was playing.... no, that is wrong. Thousands came because word was out that Wayne Newton was in town.


20 posted on 07/11/2025 9:57:02 PM PDT by BEJ
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