Opisthotonic death pose
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The Opisthotonic death pose is a death pose widely observed in dinosaur fossils where the head is thrown back and tails are arched upward that Creationists (Creation Ministries International, Answers in Genesis) have attributed to a global Flood.[1] Scientists confirmed the role of water in the fossilization process by experimenting on both chickens[2] and emus[3] to confirm that the same pose results from asphyxiation during a water burial.
References
- ↑ Mitchell, E. (2011, December 10). "Dinosaur Deaths Pose Link With Immersion In Water." Answers in Genesis.
Silvestru, E. (2012, January 8). "Water and Death Throes." Creation Ministries International.
Catchpoole, D. (2010, September 27). "Death Throes." Creation Ministries International. - ↑ Cutler, A.A.; Britt, B.B.; Scheetz, R.; & Cotton, J. (2011, January). "The Opisthotonic Death Pose as a Function of Muscle Tone and Aqueous Immersion." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 31: 95-95.
Switek, B. (2011, November 23). "Watery Secret of the Dinosaur Death Pose." NewScientist.
Black, R. (3017, March 1). "The Secret of the Dinosaur Death Pose." Scientific American.
Russell, A., Bently, A. 2015. "Opisthotonic Head Displacement in the Domestic Chicken and its Bearing on the ‘Dead Bird’ Posture of Non-Avialan Dinosaurs." Journal of Zoology. doi: 10.1111/jzo.12287 - ↑ Reisdorf, A.G. & Wuttke, M. (2012). "Re-evaluating Moodie’s Opisthotonic-Posture Hypothesis in Fossil Vertebrates Part I: Reptiles—The Taphonomy of the Bipedal Dinosaurs Compsognathus Longipes and Juravenator Starki from the Solnhofen Archipelago (Jurassic, Germany)." Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 92(1): 119-168. doi:10.1007/s12549-011-0068-y
