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How a Great-Grandmother Helped Researchers Unravel a Dinosaur Mummy Mystery

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A paleontologist was trying to locate the site of a famous 1908 discovery when a rancher in Wyoming shared an important clue.

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Each fossil tells a story, but some of them reveal much more than others. When organic matter withdraws and the rock takes its place, it sometimes happens that an ancient body freezes with unexpected precision. This is exactly what a mummy of dinosaurs discovered in Wyoming offers today, a specimen whose envelope still reveals the textures, shapes and surprises of an animal frozen in flight. The best preserved dinosaur mummy in the world It is i…

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