Scales on mummy crest (IMAGE)

University of Chicago Medical Center

Scales on mummy crest

Caption

The scaly skin of a crest over the back of the juvenile duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens, nicknamed “Ed Jr.” The juvenile duckbill, estimated to be about two years old at the time it died, is the only juvenile dinosaur mummy ever discovered. 

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Photograph courtesy of Tyler Keillor/Fossil Lab

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