November 25, 2006

Gimme some (dino) skin

In the past, what we've learned about dinosaurs has been mostly based on bones. That might soon change with the recent discovery of an extremely well preserved, 67-million-year-old duckbilled dinosaur found with fossilized skin in the Hell Creek Formation of Montana, according to a North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences press release.

The near-complete remains may yield precious soft tissue, thanks to a technique that recovered structures resembling blood cells in a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton last year.

From Discovery News.

Posted by David on November 25, 2006 3:19 PM

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Wow. It's hard to believe that skin and/or soft tissue could be preserved for so long. Some day we might...ah, no, that's just a well-known novelist's fancy.

Posted by: Sarah [TypeKey Profile Page] on November 25, 2006 7:28 PM
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