mummified dino found intact

[instar]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1010_021010_dinomummy.html

 

[moosenoose]

That is awesome! Palaeontologists have always wondered about whether it was skin or scales that was the covering on dinosaurs i thought? Weren't they also toying with the idea that it may have even been at an extreme, feathers?? I knew they'd found a mummified Mammoth at one stage in the ice but never heard of them finding a mummified reptile.

 

[cwarren72]

Now tell me that wouldn't be cool to find?

 

[Jarvis78]

Re: RE: mummified dino found intact

That is awesome! Palaeontologists have always wondered about whether it was skin or scales that was the covering on dinosaurs i thought? Weren't they also toying with the idea that it may have even been at an extreme, feathers?? I knew they'd found a mummified Mammoth at one stage in the ice but never heard of them finding a mummified reptile.

actually as far as i know palaeontologists have known for along time dinosaurs had scales (some deveolping feathers and eventually becoming modern birds)as they have found fossilised skin in the past but what is significat is the amount of muscle and other tissue that is on the skeleton.

cool stuff. imagine keeping a 8meter juvinile duck billed dinosaur in the back yard. i wonder if you would need an advanced licence for that!

 

[Guest]

RE: Re: RE: mummified dino found intact

Thats really great for the science, i wanted to b a palientoligest when i was young though it soulds like a lonly job so not 4 me.
cheers
pete

 

[Jarvis78]

i wanted to be a palaeontologist when i was a kid too. wish i had of stuck to it now. it would have been really cool

 

[moosenoose]

Re: RE: mummified dino found intact

actually as far as i know palaeontologists have known for along time dinosaurs had scales (some deveolping feathers and eventually becoming modern birds)as they have found fossilised skin in the past but what is significat is the amount of muscle and other tissue that is on the skeleton.

cool stuff. imagine keeping a 8meter juvinile duck billed dinosaur in the back yard. i wonder if you would need an advanced licence for that!

lol can I have a second crack at that? :lol: I meant the colour, did they find out about the colour! :lol: :lol:

 

[Guest]

RE: Re: RE: mummified dino found intact

yeah, i wish the colour was revieled, its always been assumed.

 

[instar]

RE: Re: RE: mummified dino found intact

You could assume color would be greenish/wood tone/speckled for most small herbivors to effect camoflage among cycads etc, no fun being eaten by a raptor or t-rex. raptors were thought to be forest hunters so likely had similar coloration. Huge herbivors on the plains would not have needed much cryptic coloration imo. Intresting thought though is weather or not they were able to affect change like chameleons to aid heating/cooling?