So 4 of my friends sent me this exact same story today… which is totally cute. I love my friends for knowing my soft spot for dinosaurs 
So I guess I should just let everyone know that I am indeed SUPER excited that they found a mummified dinosaur, and thank you all for sending me the story!
“This is not the usual disjointed sentence or fragment of a word that the fossil records offer up as evidence of past life. This is a full chapter.”
Animal tissue typically decomposes quickly after death. Researchers say Dakota must have been buried rapidly and in just the right environment for the texture of the skin to be preserved.
“The process of decay was overtaken by that of fossilization, preserving many of the soft-tissue structures,” Manning said.
Woo!
