Co-authors Daniel Vidal and María Ciudad Real created 3D models of the dino mummy material using CT scans and photogrammetry - check them out on MorphoSource!

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The clay-templating preservation method was previously only found in small soft-bodied animals in the ocean, but now discovered in large three-dimensionally preserved land animals!

Art in first post by Dani Navarro.

Previously published mummies showed what Edmontosaurus hands would have looked like, now with these mummies we know what their feet looked like and can therefore better reconstruct their posture and locomotion.

Aww, thank you!! 😊

You're welcome! And thank you and Gayani for inviting me to join the project!! I love these sort of studies, combining so many skills to get at big cool questions like this.

Whoa, DC has been historically worse than Florida? 🤯 (We did catch up though...)

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Thank you!!

I couldn't have done this without such amazing collaborators!

@paleofox.bsky.social, @rockjock80.bsky.social , and Jason Bourke!

Silhouettes from phylopic (Andrew A. Farke, T. Michael Keesey, Brad McFeeters), parrot lungs from Lawson et al. 2021, CFD model by Jason Bourke, in Baumgart et al 2025.