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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: "Dinosaur Mummy" Has Skin Like Birds' and Crocodiles'


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The skin of a 66-million-year-old duckbilled dinosaur pokes out of the soil at the Hell Creek formation in North Dakota in 2007.

Advanced imaging and chemical techniques later revealed that the dinosaur had skin like that of birds or crocodiles, a July 2009 study says.

Photograph by Tyler Lyson, copyright NGS