This is the actual paper. For a much quicker overview (and where I originally found this) check this article: Dinosaur 'mummies' preserved so well that artists can recreate their appearance in...
This is the actual paper. For a much quicker overview (and where I originally found this) check this article:
this clay template fossil process in general, that preserves so much soft tissue detail across >65mya
Edmontosaurus was a bipedal hooved land dwelling dinosaur (also walked on four legs)
excellent surface detail, which I’m hoping results in even more accurate 3d models coming to documentaries in the future
Very cool:
A tall, fleshy crest stretched from its neck down to its back, fading into a neat row of interlocking spikes along the tail. The skin bore intricate polygonal scales, some barely a few millimeters wide.
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By contrast, end-Cretaceous E. annectens preserves the oldest hoof renderings for any tetrapod, the first record of hooves in a reptile, the first instance of a hooved tetrapod capable of bipedal locomotion, and the first hooved tetrapod with disparate fore and hindfoot posture (unguligrade versus subunguligrade, respectively).
This is the actual paper. For a much quicker overview (and where I originally found this) check this article:
Dinosaur 'mummies' preserved so well that artists can recreate their appearance in great detail
The big highlights for me were
Very cool:
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It's so cool they have hooves! And two different types! Dinosaurs are so frickin cool