RE: Mummified Dinosaurs?

["Rafert, John" <JRAFERT@xray.indyrad.iupui.edu>]

You are right. Obviously there are no real mummified Dinosaurs(at least to 
date) in the sense of the Egyptian mummies. There is a hadrosaur in New York 
that was fossilized in such a way as to preserve it's dried skin which has 
shrunk tightly around the bones. It looks pretty much like a mummy, but of 
course is a fossil.


John Rafert       jrafert@xray.indyrad.iupui.edu
Indiana University
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From: dinosaur
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Mummified Dinosaurs?
Date: Wednesday, July 27, 1994 9:14AM


I knew I had forgotten one major question in my last barrage:

More than once I have read about "mummified" dinosaurs, but without any
explanation. Everytime I read it, I go "HUH???". I mean after 65+ million
years, you can find an animal mummified like one of those mammoths from
Siberia?

Is this also just a catchy expression for something that has nothing
whatsoever
to do with the common notion of a mummy?

Mike

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