The best dinosaur fossils that include the entire skeleton of the dinosaur, though rare, have one very strange thing in common. They all have a weird "death pose" where the tail and neck arch very awkwardly back and up as if the dinosaur were doing a contortionist impersonation when it died. A new study by scientists has figured out what the likely cause of this strange pose is. Surprise surprise! It's WATER!
Scientists recently tried a number of methods to get dead birds to take this shape upon death (placing them in warm sand, etc.) but the only method that created the same "death pose" as found in dinosaur fossils was dunking the dead birds in water. By doing this, the backs and necks of the birds instantly arched exactly like the poses fully intact dinosaur fossils have.
Wikipedia: Dinosaur Death Pose
Alicia Cutler and colleagues from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, think it all comes down to a dip in the wet stuff. Cutler placed plucked chickens – both fresh and frozen – on a bed of sand for three months to see if desiccation would lead to muscle contractions that pulled the neck upwards – a previously suggested explanation for the death pose. The chickens decayed without contorting. When seven other chickens were placed into cool, fresh water, however, their necks arched and their heads were thrown back within seconds. Sustained immersion of the birds for up to a month slightly increased the severity of the pose, but the major movement of the head occurred almost immediately.Add another point to the global Genesis flood being the cause of such dinosaur fossils.
NewScientist: Water Is the Secret of The Dinosaur Death Pose (Requires subscription to see more than first couple paragraphs.)
Answers In Genesis: Dunking dead chickens delivers dinosaur death secret.
