The Duckbilled Edmontosaurus is a new discovery
An extremely rare and mummified Duckbilled Edmontosaurus has been discovered. The 65 million year old mummy of a Duckbilled Edmontosaurus was found in 2004 in South Dakota.
Scientists are particularly excited about the find, because they say there never has been such a complete specimen of a dinosaur.
Unlike almost every other dinosaur fossil ever found, the Edmontosaurus named Dakota, a duckbilled dinosaur unearthed in southwestern North Dakota in 2004, is covered by fossilized skin that is hard as iron. It's among just a few mummified dinosaurs in the world, say the researchers who are slowly freeing it from a 65-million-year-old rock tomb.
"This is the closest many people will ever get to seeing what large parts of a dinosaur actually looked like, in the flesh," said Phillip Manning, a paleontologist at Manchester University in England, a member of the international team researching Dakota.
The bad news is that researchers have a lot of painstaking work to do for the next year before they will learn much.
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