Posted on 07/03/2009 6:50:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
"This is the closest you're going to get to patting the animal," said excavation leader Phillip Manning, a paleontologist at Britain's University of Manchester... Advanced imaging and chemical techniques revealed that the 66-million-year-old "mummified" duckbilled dinosaur had two layers of skin, as do modern vertebrates, including humans. Such a discovery was possible because the dinosaur's skin fossilized before bacteria had a chance to eat up the tissue. It is "absolutely amazing to be able to identify organic molecules from soft tissue that belonged to a beast that died over 66 million years ago," said Manning, whose work with the fossil was partially funded by the National Geographic Expeditions Council... Tyler Lyson, a teenager at the time, discovered Dakota, as the fossil was later dubbed, in 1999 on his family's North Dakota property... No one knows how the hippo-size animal died. But scientists do know that the body was probably buried rapidly.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
The skin of a 66-million-year-old duckbilled dinosaur pokes out of the soil at the Hell Creek formation in North Dakota in 2007. Advanced imaging and chemical techniques later revealed that the dinosaur had skin like that of birds or crocodiles, a July 2009 study says. [Photograph by Tyler Lyson, copyright NGS]
No one knows how the hippo-size animal died. But scientists do know that the body was probably buried rapidly.
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I have a pair of alligator boots that look just like that skin, right down to the size of the scales.
I knew that somehow a pic of Michael Jackson's Autopsy would be made public.
:-)
Must be heavy, bein’ made out of rock and all. ;’)
Wow, what a great find. !!!
with that goofy looking grin- no wonder they’re extinct
I always find this sort of discovery quite interesting. I love learning about the history of the Universe. Something is amiss here, though.
How can the dinosaur fossil be 66 million years old when we know the Bible never mentions dinosaurs and that the world is only about 6,500 years old? Something doesn’t compute. Who is wrong here?
But it sure allows one great leeway in the just-so kingdom.
You signed up today just to post that ?
Yes, do you have an answer for me?
Which question?
You joined today just to post that divisive load of crap?
Yeah, it’s dino-mite. ;’)
The pattern is hex, not regular but hex none the less.
When he said Billie Jean was not his lover, he wasn’t just kiddin’.
One good thing has come out of the media saturation about his demise — while looking for some info (surfing at work, totally work-related though) I found a wiki-wacky-pedia page that said the Thriller was the biggest selling album (in units sold) of all time.
And second (this is the good thing I mentioned) was “Back in Black”. The old perennial number one from (most of) our youth, “Dark Side of the Moon”, is down the list a ways.
Of course, The Backstreet Boys have three or four titles on the list, for those who like to see what their last meal tastes like a while later.
Hmm, I'll have to update that one. When I see another popular but absurdly hostile comment by some nimmie with skin that is far too thin, I post this:
And since I don't have very high esteem for any of the spam trolls on either side of the so-called debate often referred to as cr/evo, I really liked this:
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