DINOSAUR LEG-END

Fossil finds shed new light on extinction event

BBC Researchers digging at the Tanis fossil site in North Dakota in the US have turned up an extraordinarily well-preserved fossil dinosaur leg complete with skin. Professor Paul Barrett from the London Natural History Museum said: “It’s a Thescelosaurus. It’s from a group that we didn’t have any previous record of what its skin looked like, and it shows very conclusively that these animals were very scaly like lizards. They weren’t feathered like their meat-eating contemporaries.” The leg was found on its own, with no evidence of the rest of the dinosaur anywhere in the vicinity. “This looks like an animal whose leg has simply been ripped off really quickly. There’s no evidence on the leg of disease, there are no obvious pathologies, there’s no trace of the leg being…

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