Rare Mummified Dinosaur Unearthed: Contains Skin, and Maybe Organs, Muscle

Rare Mummified Dinosaur Unearthed: Contains Skin, and Maybe Organs, Muscle (Wired.com)

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Scientists on Monday announced the discovery of what appears to be the world's most intact dinosaur mummy: a 67-million-year-old plant-eater that contains fossilized bones and skin tissue, and possibly muscle and organs.

Preserved by a natural fluke of time and chemistry, the four-ton mummified hadrosaur, a duck-billed herbivore common to North America, could reshape the understanding of dinosaurs and their habitat, its finders say. (Quelle: Wired.com)