Scientists Find "Perfect" Dino Fossil

[KAPTAINmORGANnWo4life]

Leave it to the Germans to find something with so many interdependent parts.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

Hot damn! It looks just like those cartoons!
Awesome find, guys.

 

[WolfThomas]

Hmmm, perhaps almost too perfect...

The bone beneath his jaw is called the Hyoid bone...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyoid_bone

...Even humans have it.

The reason the dinosaur is making such a weird pose, is the same reason most of the bipedal dinos make this pose. When the dino dries out from decomposition, the tissue(muscle, skin, etc) pulls the skeletal structure into this pose.

Damn Ninja'd.

Spoiler: good picture of it in humans

 

[redeemer09]

anybody esle notice it kind of looks like the first raptor fossil showed in jurassic park 1?

 

[McGuinty1]

The bone beneath his jaw is called the Hyoid bone...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyoid_bone

...Even humans have it.

The reason the dinosaur is making such a weird pose, is the same reason most of the bipedal dinos make this pose. When the dino dries out from decomposition, the tissue(muscle, skin, etc) pulls the skeletal structure into this pose.

Came here to post this. Good jokes, but yeah, all you nerds have a neckbeard bone under your tongue as well. It isn't connected to any other facial bones, it just kind of sits there in a sling formed by the muscles and tissue in the floor of your mouth to give it structure and support. Once those muscles and ligaments rot away, it's free to roam away from your stinking bloated carcass. That this dino's hyoid is intact and that close to its original position is a testament to how well preserved this fossil is.

 

[Adrian Flores]

The majority of you guys are morons. There is no way that bone under the jaw is a bone that it choked on. That would imply that it died while eating, so where is the rest of the animal that is being eaten? Also, the animal is clearly very well articulated so the chances are low that it is a disarticulated limb bone. Especially, when all of the limb bones are accounted for. Also, the bone under the base of the tail is the ischium stupid.
To answer the question of why more specimens aren't found so complete is simple. There are too many variables. Everything needs to be perfect to get a specimen like this one. I've seen many dinosaur skeletons and few had an intact hyoid bone or sclerotic ring. This makes the present specimen very valuable.