“There's about three or four ankylosaurs that are preserved in a way that you could say are mummies,” Dr Susannah Maidment told IFLScience.
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Borealopelta is one of the world’s most magnificent dinosaur mummies.
Borealopelta is one of the world’s most magnificent dinosaur mummies.
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Dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago (well, apart from those feathered ones still alive today), but despite the incredible age of their fossils, we do find soft tissues intact. These mummified samples have provided snapshots into everything from dietary preferences to how dinosaurs had sex.
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