Why is it that dinosaurs always die running?

Question

Why is it that dinosaurs always die running? And after they die, do they keep on running?(my friend asked this question by the way. No idea what she is talking about)

Answer 1

Your friend is simply mistaken.

Many dinosaur fossils are found where the animal died in a curled up position. They've ounf dinosaur egg fossils, and they obviously couldn't have been running at all.
http://www.paleoportal.org/index.php?globalnav=fossil_gallery§ionnav=detail&submission_id=753&taxon_id=134&state_id=&period_id=&assemblage_id=&last_section=search

Answer 2

I think the question is probably a joke but, I can't resist using it as an excuse to point you to an article posted by the American Museum of Natural History in New York entitled: FIRST EVER FOSSIL OF SLEEPING DINOSAUR FOUND IN CHINA, with a drawing of the sweetest bird-like creature snoozing away!.
http://www.amnh.org/science/papers/sleeping.php
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1013_041013_sleepy_dino.html

Answer 3

That is not true, unless she had a time machine to go back and watch a dinosaur die, I don't see how she would know. Also there are dinosaurs that died in tar pits, and they couldn't be running. ***

Answer 4

Probably like almost all feral animals, including reptiles, they were very alert to their environment. Where every sound and odor could be another animal on the prowl for the next meal, running is a primary defense action. Dead is dead. Life is not like the road runner/Wiley coyote confrontations

Answer 5

i think of we are all dinosaurs in a pastlife and the genes on no account left. whilst individuals are indignant we GRRR or make loud noises. Or stomp our ft. I unquestionably tend to do it too sometims. we are all dinosaurs at heart :)

Answer 6

how does she know that
we have never seen one die
and when they die they fall over and maybe get covered in lava or mud and we find the shape millions of years later ,or the bones ,dead bodies when dead bloat ,and so spread all the limbs so the bones we find are also spread ,
but if they were running is any bodies guess

Answer 7

They are trying to dodge all of the falling meteors, so that they won't become extinct.

Answer 8

how they can run if they are dead....is your friend 7?

Answer 9

cuz thats how they wanted to die!