Heartbreaking News: A Newly Discovered Turkey-like Dinosaur Died A Painful, Horrific Death 113 Million Years Ago

Daily Mail — A turkey-sized dinosaur that once roamed the Australian-Antarctic rift valley 113 million years ago has been discovered.

It appears the plant-eating dinosaur became trapped in a log jam where it died in pain and became immortalised.

The new find sheds light on the diversity of the small, bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs called ornithopods.

The partial skeleton named Diluvicursor pickeringi or Pickering’s Flood-Running dinosaur was found in sea cliffs near Cape Otway in the south eastern Australian state of Victoria. 

Fuck, this sucks. I’m crushed.

It’s weird — I scour front page news all day. I scroll by gang members stabbing each other in the throat in Virginia or folks getting run over by trains in India. No reaction. Doesn’t move the needle. But then I read that this cute little dinosaur got stuck in a stream 113 million years ago and died in pain and it kills me. I’m shattered.

One minute, turk-dino is hopping along the shorelines with his pals, nibbling various vegetation, occasionally scooting over to the water’s edge to sip fresh river water. It’s a nice day, about 63, partly cloudy with a gentle northwesterly wind. The water is cold. The next minute, turk-dino’s leg snags suddenly between two logs. It’s trapped. Confused, he tries realigning his body in an effort to free his leg. No luck. After about 90 seconds, panic sets in. Turk-dino’s movements change from subtle realignments to frantic squirms. Unfortunately, this only traps him worse. Soon, he takes on water and — realizing how dire the situation is, as hope fades and fear grips the young reptile — he starts to whimper. Louder and more high-pitched they grow. More and more frequent they come. Abruptly, they stop, only to be replaced by splashing. Turk-dino is submerged. The river’s fierce rapids overrun him. He desperately needs air but quickly begins inhaling water. More and more water. Too much water. His lungs fill with cold liquid and his limbs splash more and more frantically at first, eventually losing pace. Slower and slower he flaps. The water’s too much. One slow, energy-less last splash, then nothing. Silence, for the perpetual white noise of the rapids.

Turk-dino is dead. He was just 4 (based on his picture).