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Partially mummified dinosaur revealed | The Courier-Mail: "A PARTIALLY mummified hadrosaur discovered by a teenager in North Dakota may be the most complete dinosaur ever found, with intact skin that shows evidence of stripes and perhaps soft tissue, researchers said today.

Enough of the animal remains to show it ran quickly and was far more muscular than scientists believed such dinosaurs were.

'It's sort of King Tut meets T Rex,' paleontologist Phil Manning of the University of Manchester in Britain said.

The creature is fossilised, with the skin and bone turned to stone. But unlike most dinosaur fossils, tissues are preserved as well.

This includes large expanses of the animal's skin, with clear remains of scales.

'This is not a skin impression. This is fossilised skin,' Dr Manning said."