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Intricate Skin Impressions Still Visible on ‘Exquisitely Preserved’ Dinosaur Footprints

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During the Early Cretaceous, a small two-legged dinosaur walked across a stretch of fine-grained mud following a rainstorm. The resulting footprints became locked in stone, but unlike other fossilized dinosaur tracks, these 120-million-year-old fossils show skin impressions across the entire footprint, in what is…

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