Fossil

Study reveals mummified dinosaur skin was bitten by ancient crocodiles

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(CNN) – The skin of a 67-million-year-old dinosaur has revealed bites and cuts from an ancient crocodile, and how his flesh was torn may explain why he was mummified. Skin breaks down much more easily than bone, so it is extremely rare to find skin from fossilized dinosaur. New research on a 7-meter-long Edmontosaurus, a … Read more

The “fish from hell”: They discover a fossil in an incredible state of a sturgeon that died with the dinosaurs

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Paleontologists are unearthing part of what the world was like before us before the great extinction. And in that work, they discovered the fossils of two species of sturgeon fish (two of each) in an incredible state of conservation in a place called “Tanis”. This corresponds to a section of the Hell Creek Formation of … Read more

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