This Dinosaur Fossil Has Skin Intact – Here’s Why it’s Significant

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This Dinosaur Fossil Has Skin Intact – Here’s Why it’s Significant
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Over ten years after it was first discovered, and we're still learning things from this rare instance of fossilized dinosaur 🦕 skin.

, the curator of dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrell Museum in Alberta, suggests that the dinosaur’s thick coat of armor may have prevented sea-based predators from eating away at its remains.

“It was probably a region where [long-necked] plesiosaurs and big fish didn’t like to go,” said Henderson in

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