Dinosaur found with fossilized skin and muscles.

[Argus Skyhawk]

They have unearthed a hadrosaur with not only the usual fossilized bones, but also fossilized skin and muscles, giving scientists new information about dinosaur anatomy. Washington Post Article

 

[Brent]

haha, i got a kick out of this

A high school student hunting fossils in the badlands

interesting news all around, the pictures are pretty cool

 

[M'Sharak]

Brent said:
haha, i got a kick out of this

A high school student hunting fossils in the badlands

Quite a few important finds have been made by amateurs. Of course, the article also mentions that he'd been fossil-hunting since he was in elementary school and that he is now a paleontology grad student. I see, too, that he'd initially noted the finding of a few vertebrae, then gone back to the find some time later when something else didn't pan out.

 

[Brent]

By getting a kick out of it, I was refering to the use of the word "badlands" , as in the badlands in Star Trek.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Luke: "What is is, Obi Wan?"
Obi Wan: "It was like a million achealogists around the world orgasmed at once."

 

[M'Sharak]

Brent said:
By getting a kick out of it, I was refering to the use of the word "badlands" , as in the badlands in Star Trek.

Okay, I get it. The Star Trek connection hadn't occurred to me in this context, but that area was known as the Badlands even before the US Cavalry helped take it away from the previous inhabitants. The Lakota "mako sika" means "bad land".

 

[flux_29]

Cool.

 

[romulus]

Watched the National Geographic show about it today.

Looks like they will at it for a while on that thing. The scanner thing couldn't penetrate the larger piece (two pieces, one with most of the body and the other with part of the tail).

One question though, if the soft tissue has been replaced with minerals, how are they going to avoid digging through it with there tools?

I guess there is a difference in density from fossilized bone to regular rock or dirt but would there be a difference with "mummified" soft tissue?

 

[SlyCardie]

I read about this in the paper, what a great find. Now if we could only clone it and see what happens.