Mummified Dinosaur Found!

Paleontology tends to be a weird science. You can't prove almost anything by experimentation, but instead you find a toe bone and a tooth and use them to try and figure out how a whole animal is put together. (I remember how hard I laughed during a trip to the Peabody Museum in New Haven, CT, when I learned they had found the wishbone for an extinct bird and used it to construct an entire animal. The wishbone was the ONLY fossil ever found for the species, but paleontologists had posited a number of unique features elsewhere from it.) But every once in a while, you come across a treasure trove. The newest discover is just such a find. They have discovered a complete mummified duckbill dinosaur in North Dakota!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/03/18/dinosaur.mummy.ap/index.html

This is only the fourth such find in history. The mummified remains may even contain actual DNA that could be used for study. Or, dare I say, cloning.