Recently Discovered "Mummified" Dinosaur Is So Well-Preserved It Even Has The Skin And Guts Intact (Photos & Video)

Since long years, Scientists have struggled to confirm what dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures may have looked like when they were alive. One researcher Who involved discovery said that; “We don’t just have a skeleton,” one said. “We have a dinosaur as it would have been.” Scientists are hailing it as the best-preserved dinosaur specimen ever discovered. That’s why you cannot see its bones – they remain covered by intact skin and armor.

As millions of years passed, minerals could have settled on the dinosaur's armor and skin. This might help explain why the creature was preserved in such a lifelike form. Researchers have named the 5.5 metre (18-foot-long) nodosaur Borealopelta markmitchelli, in honour of Royal Tyrrell Museum technician Mark Mitchell, who spent over 7,000 hours carefully unearthing the fossil from its rocky grave. Nodosaur (armoured dinosaur) fossil discovered at the Suncor Mine near Fort McMurray by Government of Alberta