death pose -- Tyrell Museum, Drumheller, Alberta

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The head is arched back as far as it can possibly go.  The conventional interpretation is that the tendons dried up, pulling the head and tail back.

As we tour these specimens, you will notice many thing that completely contradict this claim.  The idea of a global flood is a vastly superior model for explaning these death contortions throughout the fossil record.

The first contradictions to the conventional interpretation are visible in this specimen:

If the tendons on the back of the neck were pulling the head back because the dried up, why are the legs pulled straight?  The tail is arched back on this one, but this is not always the case, and can also be explained by the stress of being buried alive , or possibly defacating under duress.

In particular, the tendons in the back of the leg, which pull the foot down and support the body weight, should have also dried and tensed up.  The feet are not pulled down.  Why not?