Dinosaur mummies

A scene from about 66 million years ago, depicting the broad-beaked dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens as it appeared in life, based on “mummies” discovered in east-central Wyoming—preserved scaly skin and hooves. The dinosaur had a fleshy ridge over its neck and torso, a row of fleshy spines over its pelvis and tail, and hooves covering the tips of its hind feet. Credit: Dani Navarro

The first hoofed reptile: Dinosaur "mummies" reveal surprising evolutionary turn

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Paleontologists from the University of Chicago have unearthed fossils of a "duckbill" dinosaur in Wyoming that have been meticulously reconstructed in the university's fossil lab. These fossils preserve soft tissues and external features at impressive resolution, allowing scientists to reconstruct what it looked like
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