• Dinosaur Fossil With Fleshy Rooster's Comb Is First of Its Kind

  • Dinosaur Fossil With Fleshy Rooster's Comb Is First of Its Kind
    Mummified fossil represents first description of a soft-tissue crest atop a dinosaur's head.

    A rare, mummified specimen of the duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosauraus regalis shows for the first time that those dinosaurs' heads were adorned with a fleshy comb, most similar to the roosters' red crest. 

    ILLUSTRATION COURTESY PHIL R. BELL, FEDERICO FANTI, PHILIP J. CURRIE, AND VICTORIA M. ARBOUR, CURRENT BIOLOGY

  • 2013-12-30
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