'Dakota', the 67 million year old mummified dinosaur whose discovery was announced Monday by Paleontologists, contains "mineralized" skin and may even have remnants of organs and other soft tissue.
The dinosaur was discovered by a fossil-hunting teenager -- now a geology gradute from Yale University -- back in 1999. Scientists have taken great care with this find, since the amount of data that can be extracted from it is huge.
National Geographic channel will showcase the discovery in a documentary called 'Dino Autoposy' scheduled to air December 9th.
The fossil currently resides at Boeing's test lab in Canoga Park, California, where it is being examined by the world's largest CT scanner. The scientist team involved in investigating the fossil are able to determine many important details about the dinosaurs anatomy, as well as using the surrounding rock to create a picture of what the world it lived in was like.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/12/dino_mummy
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