Dakota Dinosaur Mummy - Pictures of the mummified dinosaur found in North Dakota by teenager Tyler Lawson which is the best preserved dinosaur mummy ever found.
Here is what the Dakota dinosaur mummy looked like:
A partially mummified hadrosaur discovered in North Dakota in 1999 and nicknamed “Dakota”, may be the most complete dinosaur ever found, with intact skin that shows evidence of stripes and perhaps soft tissue, researchers said on Monday.

The fossilized duckbilled hadrosaur is so well preserved that scientists have been able to calculate its muscle mass and learn that it was more muscular than thought, probably giving it the ability to outrun predators such as T. Rex.
While they call it a dino mummy, the dinosaur is not really preserved like mummies such as King Tut were. The dinosaur body is fossilized into stone. Unlike the collections of bones found in museums, this hadrosaur came complete with skin, ligaments, tendons and possibly some internal organs, according to researchers who performed a high-tech autopsy.

The study is not yet complete, but scientists have concluded that hadrosaurs were bigger — 3 1/2 tons and up to 40 feet long — and stronger than had been known, were quick and flexible and had skin with scales that may have been striped.
“Oh, the skin is wonderful,” paleontologist Phillip Manning of Manchester University in England rhapsodized, admitting to a “glazed look in my eye.”
“It’s unbelievable when you look at it for the first time,” he said in a telephone interview. “There is depth and structure to the skin. The level of detail expressed in the skin is just breathtaking.”
Manning said there is a pattern of banding to the larger and smaller scales on the skin. Because it has been fossilized researchers do not know the skin color. Looking at it in monochrome shows a striped pattern, and in modern reptiles, such a pattern is often associated with color change.

The fossil was found in 1999 in North Dakota and now is nicknamed “Dakota.” The dinosaur mummy is being analyzed in the world’s largest CT scanner, operated by the Boeing Co. The machine usually is used for space shuttle engines and other large objects. Researchers hope the technology will help them learn more about the fossilized insides of the creature.
“It’s a definite case of watch this space,” Manning said. “We are trying to be very conservative, very careful.”

The discovery, excavation and analysis of the mummified dinosaur is featured in ‘Dino Autopsy,’ premiering December. 9, at 9 p.m. ET/10 p.m. PT on the National Geographic Channel.
A children’s book, “Dino Mummy: The Life, Death, and Discovery of Dakota, a Dinosaur From Hell Creek,” goes on sale Tuesday.
And that’s the latest news on the Dakota dinosaur mummy.

December 5th, 2007 at 7:21 am
Wow. Sweet. This is truly amazing
December 5th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
I wonder how many more mummified remains they’ll find in that area. Wouldn’t it be a wonderful shock to the scientific community if they found human remains in the same layers too?
December 6th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
I have collected documented mosaics, cave paintings, bronze seals etc. of dinosaurs made by the ancient man here:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/dinosaur.htm
Dinoglyfs and dinolits from the antiquities they are, really.
Such fresh fossil samples indicate that the geologic time scales are naiiive. Here’s another news along the lines:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~pjojala/TRexin_verisuonet.htm
pauli.ojala@gmail.com
Biochemist, systems biologist
Finland
December 10th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Awesome! That is a cool mummie. I hope I find the mummy in Eygpt someday just like it. Like King Tut or something, he was a pharoh doncha know.
January 15th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
I hope to hear more about this kind of discoveries. I will help scientists to show humans how those great animal were. I’m from Venezuela. I’m so interested in these kind of researchs.
February 13th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Sweet. Im very interested in this kind of work.
March 18th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Awesome!! I remember being a little girl in the back yard hoping to come across dinosaur fossils or any other kind of historic artifact!! That little girl still lives in me!! I hope to hear more about Dakota!! It would be an opportunity of a life time to be apart of the research team!!
June 17th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
my son is thrilled that there is a dinosaur “nicknamed” after him!!!