Scientists Examine Dinosaur Skin

jd writes "Fossilized skin from a dinosaur in China is allowing paleontologists a better understanding of what dinosaur skin was like. A tear, caused by a predator, shows that below the scales of the Psittacosaurus was a thick hide comprised of 25 layers of collagen. Other than the multitude of layers, this is very similar in nature to modern shark skin. The gash caused by a predator allowed the skin and the soft interior to be fossilized along with the bones. This is not the same dinosaur that had been reported previously on Slashdot, which was found in South Dakota, although the process and extent of fossilization is very similar."

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Duplisaurus Paranoidus

[Tablizer]

This is not the same dinosaur that had been reported previously on Slashdot

Somebody's a bit sensitive about dupes ;-)

Re:I was about to make that joke

[4D6963]

Great, thanks! Cause every time someone jokes about creationism, God goes back to the Jurassic and kills a dinosaur!

Oh, the fools!

[mad-seumas]

If only they'd built them with 26 layers!

same as shark skin?

[DreamerFi]

You mean we can mount a frikking laser on them?

Re:Interesting

[theMerovingian]

A tear, caused by a predator, shows that below the scales of the Psittacosaurus was a thick hide comprised of 25 layers of collagen.

It's like I always say, 25 layers of collagen just isn't enough if you can't outrun your predators.

Re:I was about to make that joke

[RuBLed]

What do you think God was doing when dinosaurs are joking about creationism?

Right... and we're clever indeed...

Re:Interesting

[Yetihehe]

More interesting is a question how much earlier than europeans chinese began fossilizing their dinosaurs