Скачать или смотреть Dinosaur Mummy Discovery: Hooved Edmontosaurus Revealed in Wyoming Badlands

UChicago paleontologists have unveiled an extraordinary discovery: perfectly preserved "dinosaur mummies" that reveal, for the first time, the complete external appearance of Edmontosaurus annectens, a duck-billed dinosaur from 66 million years ago.

Through a rare preservation process called "clay templating," a paper-thin clay mask captured every detail of the dinosaur's skin, scales, crests, and spikes. The team's findings, published in Science, reveal surprising features including the earliest hooves ever documented in a land vertebrate.

Led by Professor Paul Sereno from UChicago's Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, the research team spent years carefully preparing these fossils in the university's Fossil Lab, using advanced imaging techniques to reconstruct how this 40-foot-long creature truly looked in life.

📍 Discovery Location: Wyoming Badlands "Mummy Zone"
📄 Published in: Science
🦴 Specimens: Two Edmontosaurus annectens fossils

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