Workers uncovering mummified dinosaur

[slowhand]

BISMARCK, N.D. - Using tiny brushes and chisels, workers picking at a big greenish-black rock in the basement of North Dakota's state museum are meticulously uncovering something amazing: a nearly complete dinosaur, skin and all.


Unlike almost every other dinosaur fossil ever found, the Edmontosaurus named Dakota, a duckbilled dinosaur unearthed in southwestern North Dakota in 2004, is covered by fossilized skin that is hard as iron. It's among just a few mummified dinosaurs in the world, say the researchers who are slowly freeing it from a 65-million-year-old rock tomb.


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[gunslingingbird]

That's awesome! I hope they are able to find answers to questions for which they had no certain answers when they study this specimen. Something that comes to mind is dinosaur skin texture. I've heard both that dinosaurs had smooth skin like a frog or a salamander, and that dinosaurs had rough, scaly skin like an alligator or a snake. We'll see.

 

[negator]

those were the days. . .