Dinosaur hoof (IMAGE)

University of Chicago Medical Center

Dinosaur hoof

Caption

The hoof, preserved in section as a very thin clay layer, caps the end toe bone in the foot of an adult mummy of the adult duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens.

Credit

Photograph courtesy of Tyler Keillor/UChicago Fossil Lab

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