Seems like there is a pretty common thread concerning dinosaur demise. Of course there is no way they all died in the biblical flood. All emphasis in the following is mine.
http://creation.com/geology-documents-dinosaurs-fleeing-noahs-floodhttp://apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=9&article=1771THE GLOBAL FLOOD
One theory pertaining to dinosaur extinction fits the available data better than any other proposed explanation:
the global Flood of Noah’s day. Since one of the major facts of dinosaur destruction is that most major dinosaur fossil graveyards were caused by huge amounts of water, the theory that most dinosaurs died during the worldwide Flood is the best explanation for the mass destruction of dinosaurs.
GRAVEYARDS ASSOCIATED WITH FLOODING
The Dinosaur National Monument fossil quarry is one of the largest fossil repositories in the world, where over 1,600 fossilized dinosaur bones are buried (“Dinosaur National Monument,” 2004). Built around the major rock face that contains the fossils is a museum, which offers interesting information about the early discovery of the site in 1909. Like almost every federally funded dinosaur exhibit, the Dinosaur National Monument also propagates the standard evolutionary refrain that the dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. One intriguing thing about this monument is its explanation regarding the cause of its huge fossil graveyard. The wall opposite the rock face contains a large painted mural.
This mural shows various dinosaurs wading through deep water. Under the mural, a placard reads: “After a seasonal flood: This scene of 145 million years ago is based on clues found in the rock face behind you. Carcasses brought downstream by the fast-moving, muddy water were washed onto a sandbar. Some were buried completely by tons of sand—their bones preserved in a nearly perfect state” (emp. added).
Interesting, is it not, that such a huge fossil graveyard is said to have occurred because of a
“seasonal flood”? Further research has shown that many fossil finds are explained
using a seasonal, regional, or flash-flood scenario. In November 1999, University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno uncovered a 65-foot-long dinosaur called Jabaria. This skeleton was almost 95% complete. What was the explanation for its burial?
“It looks as though the dinosaurs may have been caught in an ancient flash flood and buried quickly” (“Dinosaur Articles...,” 1999, emp. added). Robert Sanders, in an article copyrighted by the University of California, described a huge pterosaur graveyard by noting: “The fossil bones were found strewn throughout an ancient flood deposit in Chile’s Atacama desert,
suggesting that they were animals or corpses caught up in a flood perhaps 110 million years ago at the beginning of the Cretaceous period” (1995, emp. added).
A BBC article discussing the series “Walking with Dinosaurs,” explains that much of the information for the first episode of the series came from a fossil find called the Ghost Ranch, located near Abaquiu, New Mexico. The article describes this site as one of the richest fossil finds in the world. Why were so many dinosaurs buried suddenly? “Palaeontologists believe that the collection of fossils was the result of a mass death around a dwindling water resource during a drought. Before the bodies of the animals were eaten by scavengers,
a flash flood buried them in muddy sediments where they were preserved” (“Dig Deeper,” n.d., emp. added).
In the Fall of 2007, a massive fossil bed was uncovered in an area known as Lo Hueco, in Spain. The fossil bed contained at least 8,000 fossils, and bones from an estimated 100 Titanosauruses as well as several other dinosaur species (Catan, 2007). What caused such massive burial? Fernando Escasco, a paleontologist at Cuenca’s science museum, said that the animals
were probably washed into the fossil bed by “heavy flooding” (De Elvira, 2007, emp. added).
THE GLOBAL FLOOD OF NOAH’S DAY
How interesting to learn that evolutionists explain many of the largest dinosaur graveyards in the world as
having been caused by a flood (though they are quick to include words such as “seasonal,” “flash,” “regional,” and the like). It is important to recognize that any other theory of massive dinosaur destruction besides the global Flood of Noah’s day, must still somehow propose that great amounts of water directly caused many of the dinosaur graveyards around the world.
In truth, the global Flood of Noah’s day (as recorded in Genesis 6-8) provides an excellent explanation for many (if not all) such graveyards around the world. The Bible explains that “all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights” (Genesis 7:11-12). Furthermore, “all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered” (Genesis 7:19, emp. added). During that year-long Flood, countless thousands of dinosaurs would have drowned and been buried quickly in muddy deposits around the world. It is reasonable to conclude that these dinosaur burial grounds became the well-known fossilized graveyards scientists have discovered around the world.
http://creation.mobi/dinosaur-herd-buried-in-noahs-flood-in-inner-mongolia-chinahttp://nmstatefossil.org/item/18Colbert suggested the animals might have been poisoned, and the bodies of the dead animals
swept away by a flash flood, to congregate in a low spot and be quickly buried in mud.
https://phys.org/news/2011-11-ancient-birds-died.htmlFindings show ancient birds died in flash floodThe discovery was made in the Sebes area of Transylvania, Romania and includes a large collection of bird fossils and eggs, both partial and whole, trapped within the limestone. It is believed that this colony of
birds was wiped out when a flash flood hit the area some 100 million years ago.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2059754/Silence-enantiornithines-Fossils-flood-wiped-colony-dinosaur-era-birds.htmlSilence of the enantiornithines: Fossils
show flood wiped out colony of dinosaur-era birdshttp://www.dinodictionary.com/dinos_epg2.aspNotes: Discovered in large numbers in Alberta, Canada, Eucentrosaurus is one of the best-known ceratopsians. Apparently a herd of these dinosaurs died all at once,
perhaps caught in a flash flood. Smaller than Triceratops, Eucentrosaurus had a forward-curving 18-inch (46-cm) nasal horn and a pair of small horns above its eyes. Skin casts exist that show Eucentrosaurus to possess a knobby skin with hexagonal or pentagonal bumps set close together.
http://www.ky3.com/content/news/Local-dinosaur-bone-hunters-discovering-new-fossils--425936763.htmlThe scientific name for the creatures behind the bones Matt mentioned; a Hadrosaur. They may have died a cruel death.
Matt explains, "These are the duck-billed dinosaurs. This bone bed... we're still trying to figure out the geology behind it.
But, it looks like a herd of dinosaurs got swept away in a flash flood.”http://news.yale.edu/2014/09/10/thick-skinned-dinosaur-gets-last-laughOther explanations attributed the frequent occurrence of hadrosaur skin in the fossil record to hadrosaurs’ lifestyle — they tended to live (and die) along rivers,
where flash flooding could quickly bury them in alluvial sediments, protecting the corpse from scavengers.http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/dinosaur-museum-in-small-town-alberta-hopes-to-hit-the-big-time-1.3211366Seventy-five million years ago, tiny Pipestone Creek was a torrent in a land of active volcanoes and lumbering dinosaurs.
During a flash flood thousands of the creatures were swept down river, their carcasses collecting at a bend in the river. The fossils grew into the landscape until Lakusta got curious and went out one day with a shovel.
http://careyjaneclark.com/thursday-killed-dinosaurs/In fact, taking a tour through the Royal Tyrell museum in Drumheller, Alberta (a must-see!), you will notice that over and over again, they say things like
“This dinosaur drowned in a flood.” “This herd of dinosaurs were killed trying to cross a raging river.” “This dinosaur died in a flash flood.”https://blog.everythingdinosaur.co.uk/blog/_archives/2010/02/10/4456894.htmlBody fossils such as dinosaur bones, can be transported a long way from the area in which the animal lived and died.
For example, a dinosaur that died inland could be washed into a river as the result of a flash flood and the carcase carried out to sea, where eventually it sank. This could result in the preservation and fossilisation of a land living animal in marine deposits, as in the case of the Dorset (England), Scelidosaurus. Trace fossils on the other hand, preserve evidence of the activity of animals, their tracks, trails, burrows all being preserved as part of the fossil record.
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/discoveries/fossils/velociraptors-dog-sized-cousin-with-trademark-sickle-claws-unearthed-in-canada/The Pipestone Creek bonebed has yielded thousands of fossil finds, most of them belonging to a large horned dinosaur called Pachyrhinosaurus. It's thought that a huge
herd of these animals died in a flash flood at this site millions of years ago, leaving a graveyard of jumbled remains.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/dinosaurs/7961753/Fires-and-floods-make-Isle-of-Wight-rich-source-of-dinosaur-remains.htmlDr Sweetman said: ''When a fire
was rapidly followed by an intense flood, a snapshot of life on the Isle of Wight 130 million years ago was taken and preserved for us to see today, making the Isle of Wight one of the most important dinosaur sites in the world.
https://extinctmonsters.net/2015/03/11/the-carnegie-quarry-diaspora/About 150 million years ago, a severe drought ravaged the western interior of North America. In eastern Utah, malnourished dinosaurs gathered near a dwindling river. Unwilling or unable to leave the water source, they eventually died of thirst or disease. When rain finally returned to the region,
three or four successive flash floods washed dozens of animal carcasses into a relatively small depositional area to the southeast. Today, this site is known as the Carnegie Quarry at Dinosaur National Monument, and it is one of the most incredible fossil sites in the world.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/more-lifestyle/a-raja-a-jain-a-tagore-meet-desi-dinosaurs-that-once-roamed-india-s-plains/story-EEfvnpOJjsoJUlV0vmjjKP.htmlThe dinosaurs would have taken big strides – they certainly had the legs for it – but they didn’t reach their destination. Something,
possibly a flash flood, struck mid-way, uprooting trees and killing everything in its path. The herd died together, decomposing quietly, their skeletons falling apart as layers of earth began to cover them.
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