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Published online 23 January 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010125-5
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Disasters reveal social secrets of the dead
The mass graves of today's animals hold clues to how extinct species behaved.
Documentaries about dinosaurs and prehistoric humans brim with guesses about their stars' social and sex lives. Now, researchers believe they can put speculation about the behaviour of extinct animals on a sounder footing by comparing their mass graves with those of living species1.
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