Re: "DINOSAUR SOCIAL WARMTH"

["Jordan Mallon" <j_mallon@hotmail.com>]

> From: "Ray Stanford" <dinotracker@earthlink.net>

> Since many researchers feel birds are avian dinosaurs, this bluebird
> behavior makes me wonder whether any Mesozoic dinosaur (non-avian or 
> >avian) skeletal clusters might have been found, anywhere, that might be 
> >interpreted (or re-interpreted) as suggesting mass death during such a 
> >communal conserving of body warmth.

Cool concept!
Wasn't there a cluster of juvenile psittacosaurs found a number of years ago 
in the Gobi, who had supposedly all died together in a sand storm?  Maybe 
they were clustered together to preserve their warmth.  Sorry I can't 
remember any of the details, as I don't have the ref on me (although I do 
remember reading a bit about it in Reader's Digest).  Can someone back me 
up, here?

-Jordan Mallon

http://www.geocities.com/paleoportfolio/


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