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现存许多恐龙化石典型的姿势是嘴大张,身体向后反折,四肢收缩,多年来令众多古生物学家颇为困惑。有古生物学家日前提出新说:这一姿势显示它们很可能因脑部损伤和窒息而死亡,过程痛苦而漫长。美国加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校古生物博物馆馆长、综合生物学教授凯文·帕迪安和落基山博物馆辛西娅·福克斯在《古生物学》季刊上提出新观点:这一姿势显示这些恐龙死得很痛苦。
The extant dinosaur fossils that are typical of many dinosaur fossils are mouth big sheets, body reflexes and limbs shrinking, leaving many paleontologists puzzled over the years. Paleontologists have recently put forward a new saying: this position shows that they are likely to die of brain damage and asphyxia, the process painful and lengthy. Kevin Pittian, curator of paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley, and professor of integrated biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Cynthia Museum, Cynthia Fox, put forward a new idea in the Quarterly of Paleontology: This gesture shows that these dinosaurs died very much.