PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about the fossils of Liaoning in northwestern China... amazingly, beautifully preserved dinosaurs that give us insight into dinosaur and bird evolution.
Since the 1990s, paleontologists have been pulling 125-million-year-old complete dinosaur skeletons from the rocks of the Lujiatun in Northwestern China, most seemingly posed in perfect rest. This has prompted comparisons to a famous archeological site where behavior is similarly well preserved: the site of Pompeii, a town crystallized by volcanic eruption almost 2000 years ago. But when you look into the details, it turns out their residents may have experienced very different final moments.
