DEAD THINGS IN LAVA

[darren.naish@port.ac.uk]

WRT body moulds and such preserved in lava, I definitely remember a 
kid's book about australopithecines where the family that are the main 
focus of the story discover the body cast of a deinothere. In the story, 
the animal had been killed during the flow, and its body and skeleton 
carbonised, leaving a perfect mould in the cooled lava. OK, this might 
be fiction, but at the time I thought that it might have been based on a 
real discovery. If there *is* such a specimen, the controversy over the 
morphology of the deinothere trunk could be resolved...

Hooray for _Bambiraptor_... and will Disney sue for infringement of 
copyright?


DARREN NAISH 
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