Duckbilled mummysaurus
MonsieurEvil
Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
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<div class="IPBDescription">Friday's are boring</div><a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/819818.asp" target="_blank">Dino-mummy shows some skin</a>
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->THE DUCKBILL DINOSAUR, nicknamed Leonardo, was fossilized in an unusual way, its discoverers reported Thursday at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology’s annual meeting in Norman, Okla. Only a handful of such dinosaur mummies are known to exist, they said.
Mummified fossils are by no means like the linen-wrapped Egyptian remains from mere thousands of years ago. Rather, the specimens have turned to minerals in such a way that they preserve the look of the skin and internal tissue. In the past, scientists have theorized that mummified dinosaur flesh was dried out before it became a fossil. But researchers at the Judith River Dinosaur Institute and Phillips County Museum in Malta, Mont., believe Leonardo took a different path to posterity.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I guess the guys that do all those CGI movies on TLC and the Discovery channels finally have something to compare their theories too. A somewhat thin but interesting article.
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->THE DUCKBILL DINOSAUR, nicknamed Leonardo, was fossilized in an unusual way, its discoverers reported Thursday at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology’s annual meeting in Norman, Okla. Only a handful of such dinosaur mummies are known to exist, they said.
Mummified fossils are by no means like the linen-wrapped Egyptian remains from mere thousands of years ago. Rather, the specimens have turned to minerals in such a way that they preserve the look of the skin and internal tissue. In the past, scientists have theorized that mummified dinosaur flesh was dried out before it became a fossil. But researchers at the Judith River Dinosaur Institute and Phillips County Museum in Malta, Mont., believe Leonardo took a different path to posterity.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I guess the guys that do all those CGI movies on TLC and the Discovery channels finally have something to compare their theories too. A somewhat thin but interesting article.
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<i>Message edited by Common Sense on Friday October 11, 2002</i>
Yea, finding a dinosaur like that is kinda rare. Who knows what wee might learn out of Leonardo.