NMNH scientists are replicating dinosaur bones
and modeling dinosaur movement.
Corythosaurus casuarius
Photo by Mike Brett-Surman
Catalogue number: USNM 15493 Corythosaurus casuarius
Collected in 1933 by Levi Sternberg for the Royal Ontario
Museum Red Deer River, Alberta, Canada Cretaceous Period, about 75
million years ago
This is our "mummy", which shows
not only tendons, but also impressions of skin covering bones of the
tail.
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