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  1. Animals

    Profiles in Courtship: Flirting male fish show their best sides

    Courting male guppies that sport a tad more orange on one side of their bodies than on the other tend to flash that brighter side at females.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Paleontology

    Jurassic CSI: Fossils indicate central nervous system damage

    Fossils found in the head-thrown-back position, the so-called "dead bird" pose, probably died from central nervous system damage.

    By Carolyn Barry

  3. 19847

    In this article, the unusual head positions seem to indicate that these creatures died from a kind of nerve damage. One of the possibilities is oxygen deprivation. Doesn’t this suggest that most of these creatures probably died from suffocation after a sudden mud slide or other deluge? Ron McMurtryModesto, Calif.