Rooster-comb dino rapidly overcome
Paleontologist Phil Bell from Australia’s University of New England has made a telling observation about how mummified specimens of Edmontosaurus regalis, the duck-billed dinosaurs (hadrosaurids), must have been buried rapidly.
“For the skin to preserve, these animals had to be buried very rapidly, probably within a day or two after they died, and the chemical environment in the sediment was just right,” Bell said. He was taken aback when his chisel went into the skin of a rooster-like comb on the specimen’s head because he had been expecting it to be rock-like.
Rapid burial and fossilization is consistent with a catastrophic event such as Noah’s Flood—not with the slow and gradual accumulation of sediments (on which secular science’s millions of years doctrine depends). Survival of unpetrified (mummified) tissue is also consistent with thousands of years but invalidates millions.
- Dinosaur fossil with fleshy rooster’s comb is first of its kind, news.nationalgeographic.com, 12 December 2013.
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