Dinosaur Mummy

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One of my grandchildren love dinosaurs so I look up new fun things about them. While researching, I found a museum with an unusual mummified dinosaur. At the Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, Alberta, on display is a well-preserved dinosaur called a nodosaurus. The discovery by a excavator operator, who was digging in an oil sands mine, dated the dino to be about 110 million years old. It's so well-preserved, you can see traces of the original brown color, body shape, face, armor plates, and skin patterns. They say even a glimpse of guts are there, something unheard of. Scientist believe minerals of a long now gone sea, preserved it's body. The dinosaur weighed 3,000 pounds and was an herbivore. They say the mummy still weighs 2500 pounds. It took museum technician, Mark Mitchell, over 7,000 hours to remove the dinosaur from the rocks. I read a couple different articles but if you would like to read one, I will link the Smithsonian's here. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mummified-armored-dinosaur-makes-its-debut-1-180963311/