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Dinosaur ‘mummies’ help scientists visualize the fleshy details of these ancient animals

  • Written by Paul C. Sereno, Professor of Paleontology, University of Chicago
Dinosaur ‘mummies’ help scientists visualize the fleshy details of these ancient animalsA mummy of a juvenile duck-billed dinosaur, _Edmontosaurus annectens_, preserved as a dried carcass. Tyler Keillor/Fossil Lab

Dinosaur “mummies” couldn’t have been further from my mind as I trudged up a grassy knoll on the Zerbst Ranch in east-central Wyoming, followed by University of Chicago undergraduates on a field trip linked...

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