Scientists have dug up a fossilised hadrosaur which includes fossilised skin and soft tissue as well as bones.

The odds of such an intact dinosaur being found are extremely slim, Manning said. The dinosaur body must have somehow escaped predators, scavengers, and degradation by weather and rivers, he said.

Earlier this week, I also read an article about the work of Mary Schweitzer, a paleontologist who discovered the presence of haemoglobin and red blood cells in dinosaur bones. A more complete record of this discovery and subsequent research is available here, and the article I read in discover magazine is available here.

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