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Dino's skin tells tale of environment 

By MIKE STARK
Of The Gazette Staff 

It's impossible to know how the house-size dinosaur died. 

But what the duck-billed vegetarian left behind - to be discovered in 
Northern Wyoming more than 67 million years later - is providing new glimpses 
into 
the humid and tropical prehistoric world that once existed in our region and 
may 
lead scientists to rethink the reaches of a vast inland ocean. 

Some of the most intriguing clues are finely preserved pieces of dinosaur 
skin found in Elk Basin, north of Powell, by paleontologist Marilyn Wegweiser. 
 
On Thursday, Wegweiser showed off the artifacts at Montana State 
University-Billings as part of its Distinguished Lecture Series. 

"We are all fascinated by dinosaurs," Wegweiser said. "They're big, they're 
dead and if you watch television, they eat people." 

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