| When you receive the Seal you bear the imprint of | | | | from the stone. |
| history upon you. It was planned since before the | | | | The tissues of animals and people begin to |
| dawn of history. Another piece of evidence from | | | | decompose shortly after they are no longer alive. But |
| history is now being uncovered--a dinosaur "mummy." | | | | chemicals where this hadrosaur died caused minerals |
| It is not a real "mummy" kept the way bodies of | | | | to deposit in place of those tissues, so they have been |
| pharaohs were preserved with spices. But it is wholly | | | | "mineralized." |
| preserved as stone. The skin, muscle, ligaments, and | | | | It is certain though that there are "organic molecular |
| joints have been preserved as well as the bones. | | | | breakdown products" to be studied with the hadrosaur. |
| This is considered to be as close as scientists will ever | | | | The chemical analysis of the find is not yet complete |
| get to studying a live dinosaur. Everything is preserved | | | | and will unearth much treasure of knowledge. |
| in stone so that scientists have been able to assess | | | | Researchers have reformed many opinions about this |
| just about everything except the color of the skin. | | | | dinosaur, as well as reconsidering opinions about |
| This fossil has been found in North Dakota and is | | | | others. They were able to estimate the muscle mass |
| nicknamed Dakota after the state. It is a duckbilled | | | | of the hadrosaur and found it to be more than they |
| hadrosaur, a prey dinosaur that was quick on its feet | | | | had previously thought. |
| and without much other defense against predators. | | | | Now they believe the hadrosaur could run at up to 28 |
| The study of the dinosaur is still happening, so a | | | | miles per hour while a Tyrannosaurus Rex could only |
| complete study has not been published yet. To inspect | | | | run at 18 miles per hour. And it makes sense. It was |
| the stone of the fossil, scientists are using the world's | | | | the only way a hadrosaur could stay alive, by running |
| biggest CT scanner, normally used to scan things like | | | | away. |
| spacecraft engines. | | | | Many museums are also seeing this research and |
| Though the skin color can not be told, the skin itself | | | | wondering if they should change the way they display |
| reveals a world of mystery. Very little else has even | | | | dinosaur skeletons. Until now they have displayed the |
| been uncovered of the skin of dinosaurs. The | | | | bones of the spine close to one another. |
| monochrome image of the skin shows there were | | | | But in the hadrosaur there is a space between the |
| stripes. | | | | bones of the spine where there was something like |
| There are larger and smaller scales on the skin of the | | | | cartilage which made the dinosaur more flexible. In the |
| hadrosaur. And the striped pattern is similar to one in | | | | bigger dinosaurs these spaces could add a few feet |
| current-day reptiles that exhibit changes of color, like | | | | to their length. |
| chameleons. | | | | When you receive the Seal you receive the imprint of |
| But sadly no DNA will be recovered from this fossil. | | | | ancient history. God has preserved eternity in the mark |
| DNA has been recovered from mammoths found | | | | He sets upon you. You become an artifact of the |
| frozen for long periods of time--what is thought to be | | | | ages just like this fossilized dinosaur when you receive |
| as old as 1 million years. But no DNA can be taken | | | | the Seal. |