"Monster" dinosaur discovery

[Ronin Storm]

BBC News are reporting the discovery of an incredible cache of dinosaur fossils. No less than 28 complete skeletons... 28! 150 million years after these beasties have died, they're still there, just happen to have randomly all died in the same place. What are the chances of that?

Dr Hurum said an unusual chemistry of the mud could have been responsible for the remarkable preservation of the specimens.

That almost sounds incredulous, as if the chances of this were millions to one. "Unusual chemistry"... or could it be a fake?

 

[Tetsuo_Shima]

Amazing, dinosaurs are a fascinating subject. The fact they were all found in the same small area, and mostly of the same species might back up that famous Jurassic park quote: 'They're moving in herds, they DO move in herds.' Or perhaps schools in this case, since the dinosaurs appear to be water-borne. Were the plesiosaurs and icthysaurs 'allied'? If not, maybe they were having a fight to the death when they all died. Maybe that's what caused them to die in the first place. It would certainly provide some kind of explanation for the tooth embedded in one of the necks.

 

[Taffy]

It could be 'divine intervention'... but I doubt it.

Maybe there was some sort of chemical preservative in the soil that stopped the skeleton dis-integrating? Or indeed it could be an early april fools.