Sunday, January 3, 2021

Parrot Lizards

 From Live Science:

Did a "Cretaceous Pompeii" doom a pair of dinosaurs, burying them in a deadly ash flow and preserving them in 3D like the human victims of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79? Not quite, scientists revealed at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The 3D preservation of two psittacosaurs — beaked dinosaurs with heads that resembled those of modern parrots, earning them the name "parrot lizards" — likely happened because the dinosaurs were huddled inside a burrow that filled with mud, fully covering the animals before they fossilized. Researchers presented their findings on Dec. 14 at AGU, which was held virtually this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Read more.)

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