Posted on 08/25/2019 9:46:50 AM PDT by Anoop
Scientists hail it as perhaps the best-preserved dinosaur specimen ever uncovered. You can’t even see its bones.
That’s because, 110 million years later, those bones remain covered by the creature’s intact skin and armor.
(Excerpt) Read more at archaeology-world.com ...
-—oughta be able to get some dna and reproduce it-—???
Perfect Democrat presidential candidate. Lever this one in between Bernie and Biden.
Well, THAT didn’t take long. LOL. Been a while since old Helen’s been around.
“Well, THAT didn’t take long. LOL. Been a while since old Helen’s been around.”
Sorry, couldn’t resist. Very cool article though. Gonna see what else I can find out about it
With the creature’s skin, armor, and even some of its guts intact, researchers are astounded at its nearly unprecedented level of preservation.
“We don’t just have a skeleton,” Caleb Brown, a researcher at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, told National Geographic. “We have a dinosaur as it would have been.”
When this dinosaur - a member of a new species named nodosaur - was alive, it was an enormous four-legged herbivore protected by a spiky, plated armor and weighing in at approximately 3,000 pounds.
Today, the mummified nodosaur is so intact that it still weighs 2,500 pounds.
How the dinosaur mummy could remain so intact is still something of a mystery, although as CNN says, researchers suggest that the creature “may have been swept away by a flooded river and carried out to sea, where it eventually sank.
Over millions of years on the ocean floor, minerals took the place of the dinosaur’s armor and skin, preserving it in the lifelike form now on display.”
Although the nodosaur dinosaur mummy was so well-preserved, getting it into its current display form was still an arduous undertaking.
The creature was, in fact, first discovered in 2011 when a crude oil mine worker accidentally discovered the specimen while on the job.
Since that lucky moment, it has taken researchers 7,000 hours over the course of the last six years to both tests the remains and prepare them for display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, where visitors now have the chance to see the closest thing to a real-life dinosaur that the world has likely ever seen.
More info on the discovery. Note the article is a couple of years old..
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/06/dinosaur-nodosaur-fossil-discovery/
“Intact skin”? The article says it was fossilized so the skin has been replaced with rock.
Rules are rules.
WHERE IS THE BARF ALERT ????
Long before it occurred I predicted someone would clone a mammoth if they recovered one that had DNA.
You heard it here. Jurassic Park is on its way.
Scientists simply cannot restrain their curiosity
SOOO cool.
Damn, that’s life like and creepy.
In the face, it looks like the Godzilla from the Matthew Broderick movie.
For sure it’s not Chinese—no feathers!
Lol. How old again?
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