Dinosaur 'death pose' resembles ancestral, proto-Dinosaur, "maximum effort" posture ???

 

In the immediate aftermath, of the Permian Mass Extinction c.250 Mya, early 'proto-Dinosaurs', like Euparkeria (south Africa), survived the cauldron of competition, by rearing up, on their hind legs, and, thereby, "reaching high for the sky", to consume flying insects, otherwise unreachable from ground-level (BBC Walking with Monsters DVD):

 

 

 

Over many millions of years, Dinosaurs therefore evolved more advanced lungs, hearts, and hips, until the first true Dinosaurs evolved true bipedal postures, c.230 Mya (south America).

 

Now, that feeding posture, of 'proto-Dinosaur' Euparkeria, resembles the classic 'Dinosaur death posture', seen in scores of specimens, from the fossil record:

 

These opisthotonic (Gk. opistho- ['back'] tonos ['tension']) Dinosaur 'death throes' are "seen only in dinosaurs, pterosaurs and mammals, which are known or suspected to have had high metabolic rates" and which were warm-blooded. And, those 'death-throes' are what commonly "accompanies a long, slow death".

 

Now, please ponder, the evolutionary, and psychological, centrality, of (1) feeding; (2) survival instinct. Indeed, the Will to Live necessarily involves a 'Will to Feed'. Perhaps, then, even into death, Dinosaurs drew upon the ancient "terror tenacity", of their archaic 'proto-Dinosaur' progenitors, who fought ferociously for life, in the aftermath of the Permian Mass Extinction, and lived... when 95% of all land life on earth fizzled, in failure, into oblivion (???).

 

 

 

Dinosaur 'death pose' resembles human "throw back your head & laugh" in exultation, rage -- suggesting its psychological basis ???

 

Since the mind drives bodily behavior, a behavior common to mammals, theropod dinosaurs, & pterosaurs might imply a shared psychological inheritance, from Permian Period progenitors c.300 Mya (???):

 

 

"You think this is the real Quaid"

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Total Recall

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Edited April 26, 201114 yr by Widdekind

To take a page out of Lemur's book ........

 

Ok, but what do you want to discuss. .......

 

 

Incidentally, that last photo ..... => Do YOU think that that is the real Governor of California??

The last I heard about the dinosaur "death pose" of long necked dinosaurs and other creatures was that it was from tendons shrinking after death, not a prolonged death.

i read a interesting article that scientists are now starting to belive that mosquito's maybe the one to blaim for dinosaur wipe out due to them spreading a super virus

 

If i can find the article again i shall post it here