"New research reveals [...] that the skin found on newly discovered duck-billed dinosaur “mummies” [...] aren’t fossilized flesh at all but clay molds welded by microbes as the creatures decayed."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/duck-billed-dinosaur-mummies-are-clay-molds-formed-by-microbes-scientists/

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Duck-Billed Dinosaur ‘Mummies’ Are Clay Molds Formed by Microbes, Scientists Say

Wyoming’s “dinosaur mummies,” once thought to preserve fossilized flesh, are actually detailed clay molds formed by microbes as the creatures decayed

Scientific American