Article: Mummified dinosaur reveals its secrets

A dinosaur with "mummified" flesh has been unearthed in the United States, giving scientists an unprecedented insight into the soft tissues that are almost always lost during the fossilisation of these large animals.

British researchers involved in the project said yesterday that the near-perfect preservation of the plant-eating dinosaur's skin has enabled them to build up an exceptional picture of the animal, including the ability to estimate its top speed of 28mph.

This means that the duck-billed dinosaur, belonging to a group called the hadrosaurs, could out run the top predator, Tyrannosaurus rex, which shared the same terrestrial habitat as the hadrosaurs 67 million years ago.

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