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Channel 4 Monday 12 May at 9pm

Meet 'Dakota', the 67 million-year-old mummified hadrosaur from Hell Creek in North Dakota. The body of the prehistoric animal has been encased in rock and preserved for ever more.

Only a few dino-mummies have been discovered before and Dakota is one of the most important fossil finds to date. This dinosaur has much of its skin, tendons and ligaments intact, and may even have bodily organs preserved inside as three-dimensional fossils.

Dakota promises to bring researchers as close as they have ever been to an actual dinosaur. Read the full story and watch our video clips.


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