This undated handout photo provided by the National Geographic Society shows a technician at the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research in South Dakota working to prepare the fossil of the mummified dinosaur. One of the most complete dinosaur mummies ever found is revealing secrets locked away for millions of years, bringing researchers as close as they will ever get to touching a live dinosaur.
This undated artist rendering provided by the National Geographic Society shows the hadrosaur, nicknamed Dakota, as scientists believe it would have looked, based on their analysis of the fossil evidence so far. One of the most complete dinosaur mummies ever found is revealing secrets locked away for millions of years, bringing researchers as close as they will ever get to touching a live dinosaur.
This undated handout photo provided by the National Geographic Society shows the scale of the fossilized skin of a duckbilled hadrosaur found in 1999 in North Dakota. Soft parts of dead animals normally decompose rapidly after death. Because of chemical conditions where this animal died, fossilization took place faster than the decomposition, leaving mineralized portions of the tissue. One of the most complete dinosaur mummies ever found is revealing secrets locked away for millions of years, bringing researchers as close as they will ever get to touching a live dinosaur.
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