Experiments will determine dinosaur’s skin colour and why
the fossil preserved intact
One of the only well preserved dinosaur skin samples ever
found is being tested at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron to
determine skin colour and to explain why the fossilized specimen remained
intact after 70-million years.
University of Regina physicist Mauricio Barbi said the hadrosaur,
a duck-billed dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period (100-65 million years
ago), was found close to a river bed near Grand Prairie, Alberta.
The area has a robust “bone bed” but Barbi is not yet sure
why the fossil preserved so well.