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Dinosaur Mummy Found
sckienle writes "Although the dig was a year ago, MSNBC has an article about a very rare dinosaur find. It starts off with "A mummified dinosaur, unwrapped from the rocks of Montana, has revealed how the creature looked and how it lived 77 million years ago -- down to the texture of its skin and the contents of its stomach, scientists say." Unfortunately, the details are mostly missing in the article. This isn't the first mummified dinosaur found but it is the first in a long time."
This item was found in the summer of 2000.
This article is very very vague. It states that the creature died when it was just 3 years old; I wonder why. The article doesn't say.
Loomis
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I'm a bit too lazy to look it up at the moment, but I seem to recall a study some time back where they tried to radio carbon date a reacently dead (i.e. year or two at most) sea lion and got some wacky results. Thus my comment about not working for recent stuff. As for the 40k-50k max, I'll take your word on it. I know there are other radio isotopes they look at now (which are pulled from the surrounding rock), just didn't feel like delving into it in my post.
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Keep in mind that some theorists believe that, at the time of the dinosaurs, the atmosphere was richer in oxygen, meaning the respiratory system wouldn't need to be as powerful as that of a dinosaur evolved in today's environment.