A dinosaur 'mummy' that is one of the most complete ever has revealed invaluable information about muscle mass and the look of its scales.
The fossilized duckbilled hadrosaur is so well preserved that scientists have been able to calculate it's muscle mass and discover it was much more muscular than previously thought.
The dinoasaur, a calculated 3.5tons and up to 40ft, might have even been able to outrun predators like the tyrannosaurus rex.
Study of the mummy - which is 65 to 67 million years old - reveals that it was quick and flexible and had skin with scales that might have been striped.
The fossil was found in 1999 in the US state of North Dakota and now is nicknamed “Dakota.”
While called a mummy, the dinosaur body is in fact fossilized into stone - meaning it comes with skin, ligaments, tendons and possibly some internal organs, researchers say.
It's unlikely that you'll be seeing one of these in a 'Jurassic Park' anytime soon as its extremely unlikely that the DNA will have been preserved. Link
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