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  • 'Kitchen science' reveals dinosaurs died in agony

    06/06/2007 9:45:09 PM PDT · by my_pointy_head_is_sharp · 35 replies · 2,073+ views
    sfgate.com ^ | June 6, 2007 | David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor
    A dinosaur mystery that puzzled paleontologists for nearly a century has been solved by a pound of beef tendons from a butcher, a collection of dead hawks and a brace of frozen quail, two investigative scientists in Berkeley and Idaho say. The puzzle: Why were fossils of those ancient creatures so often discovered buried with their heads, necks and feet arched bizarrely backward into a distorted posture unlike anything seen alive? The answer: Kevin Padian, a noted dinosaur expert and curator of the Museum of Paleontology at UC Berkeley, and Cynthia Marshall Faux, a veterinarian and paleontologist at the Museum...