Workers uncovering mummified dinosaur

[acmavm]

By BLAKE NICHOLSON, Associated Press Writer 47 minutes ago

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BISMARCK, N.D. - 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.

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.

"This is not the usual disjointed sentence or fragment of a word that the fossil records offer up as evidence of past life. This is a full chapter."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_sc/dinosaur_mummy;_ylt=Aqfm7jeYhPccNZB8Oe8gNMwPLBIF

[zanne]

1. That is fascinating.

I love this stuff. I can't wait to see it!

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. Very, very cool

All I can say is, :wow:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. HEATHENS! PAGANS! SATAN WORSHIPERS!

Don't you realize that Adam and Eve captured him, mummyfied him (just like those heathen egyptiodians in them big stone buildings) and buried him?

Adam and Eve walked the world with Dino. THERE IS PROOF. IT SAYS SO IN THE GOOD BOOK! TRUST ME!

Only a satan worshiper would DENY that the universe is 6,019 years old (IT SAYS SO IN THE GOOD BOOK! TRUST ME!) and make up all these "FACTS".

Don't you see that this is but a test of faith? and you all flunked? HELLFIRE AND DAMNATION ON YOU SCIENTISTICAL TYPES!

[Mountainman]

4. And a few hundred yards where the dinosaur lay they found the remains of an early

Christian family who died about the same time as the dinosaur. All remains were tested by the Rev. Don Wan Da Fax and found to be a couple thousand years old.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. Exactly! And,

when people find dino-bones when they dig cemeteries, why are the scientistical types surprised? It was a CEMETERY! That is where bones belong!

[Faux pas]

6. Wow! Exciting and scary all at the same time. How will the

creationists explain this one.

On the sour note: Cloning will begin as soon as possible I suppose. The perfect weapon of war.

[NavyDavy]

7. 65 million yrs my foot!!! how can that be when the earths only 6000

yrs old :sarcasm:

[peacetalksforall]

8. Doesn't this writer know that you are not supposed to say 65 million? Doesn't it upset

those who have already told us how old the earth is and when the flood was?

Edited to add - I didn't read the other posts before I posted. Thinking alike.

[Tesha]

9. I'm still waiting for the right mosquito trapped in amber... (NT)