Research on modern day animals reveals insights into extinct animals
Tuesday, May 3, 2016 - 11:40
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Powerful head and neck retractions of vertebrate carcasses, including dinosaur fossils, have puzzled researchers as to whether they occurred just before an animal's death in agony, or after. Now experiments performed in the wild on large ostrich chick cadavers show that they occur post-mortem.