Workers Uncovering Mummified Dinosaur

March 18, 2008 By BLAKE NICHOLSON, Associated Press Writer Workers Uncovering Mummified Dinosaur (AP)

The textured skin of a hadrosaur is visible as it emerges from it's sandstone tomb, at the North Dakota Heritage Center Museum in Bismarck, N.D., Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008. The 65 million year old duckbilled dinosaur mummy was found in Southwest North Dakota in 2004. It is one of only four dinosaurs ever found with fossilized skin. (AP Photos/Will Kincaid)

(AP) -- Using tiny brushes and chisels, workers picking at a big greenish-black rock in the basement of North Dakota's state museum are meticulously uncovering something amazing: a nearly complete dinosaur, skin and all.



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  • Nevaar - Mar 18, 2008
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    talk about old news. Saw this on Discovery a couple of weeks ago. Very cool, to be sure, but no news here.
  • MGraser - Mar 18, 2008
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    Didn't see that program. So, I guess it's news for me! Good thing - otherwise this writer would have wasted their time! lol
  • Petie - Mar 20, 2008
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    Me too, so i will be watching this fossil discovery with keen interest. Maybe we can finally get the Hovinds of this world to eat their words about creation.

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