The Mystery of the Cretaceous Pompeii

Since the 1990s, paleontologists have been pulling 125-million-year-old complete dinosaur skeletons from the rocks of the Lujiatun in Northeastern 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. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Spilmann Reed, Randall George, Morgan, Kevin Lacson, Marco Narajos, Ian Leavitt, Collin Dutrow, Pope John XII, Aaditya Mehta, AllPizzasArePersonal, John H. Austin, Jr., Alex Hackman, Stephen Patterson, Gizmo, Karen Farrell, Jason Rostoker, Jonathan Rust, Mary Tevington, Bart & Elke van Iersel - De Jong, Irene Wood, Mark Talbott-Williams, Nomi Alchin, Duane Westhoff, Hillary Ryde-Collins, Yu Mei, Albert Folsom, Dan Caffee, Nick Ryhajlo, Jeff Graham If you'd like to support the channel, head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshow Twitter - https://twitter.com/eonsshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eonsshow/ #Eons #volcano Thumb image: Han et al. (2023) / Michael Skrepnick References: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_4lLbI8H1L4EhWlC_B66JpE1DSrhFdGmS0bLWzOAW0U/edit?usp=sharing