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China’s Feathered Dinosaurs
A turkey skeleton in
a typical avian death pose
CLOSE WINDOW
and neck backward over the body. This death pose is common in modern birds, and is evident in
several other extinct dinosaurs in this exhibit. The legs are often preserved on the same side of
the body as well, for theropod dinosaurs are obligate bipeds; like humans, they rely on their hind limbs
for support and locomotion on the ground.