5 Prehistoric Animals Found As Mummies

One of the most exciting forms of fossils that prehistoric animals can leave are fossilised ‘mummies’ - instances of exceptionally well-preserved skin and other soft tissues covering a good deal of the body. Subscribe to 7 Days of Science: https://www.youtube.com/@7DaysofScience Become a Channel Member or support us on Patreon for behind-the-scenes, bloopers, extra adventures and more! Become a Member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDSzwZqgtJEnUzacq3ddoOQ/join Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bengthomas Love science? Love notebooks? Get 10% off notebooks and planners at Atoms to Astronauts: https://www.atomstoastronauts.com/discount/BENGTHOMAS10 Join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/jTsGYtRBHZ Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/1PIEagv Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bengthomas Music by Geographer Subscribe to explore the wonderful life around you! Social Media: ►Instagram: http://bit.ly/1PIEagv ►TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bengthomas ►Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenGThomas42 ►Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BenGThomas Sources: Thaumastosaurus frog mummy: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0074874 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/199/3/744/7222864?login=false https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2021.1989694 http://fi.nm.cz/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/FOSSIL_IMPRINT_c1_16_rage_web.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009254124006661?via%3Dihub https://peerj.com/articles/3861/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jean-Claude-Rage/publication/247160935_Rage_JC_2006_The_lower_vertebrates_from_the_Eocene_and_Oligocene_of_the_Phosphorites_du_Quercy_France_An_overview_Strata_13_161-173/links/0deec51e009da38ac8000000/Rage-JC-2006-The-lower-vertebrates-from-the-Eocene-and-Oligocene-of-the-Phosphorites-du-Quercy-France-An-overview-Strata-13-161-173.pdf Edmontosaurus: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Hadrosaurs/E9sMBQAAQBAJ?hl=en https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0275240 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2023.2213287 https://archive.org/details/gravesecretsofdi0000mann_f3j8/mode/2up https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app20120077.html https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/zdgg/detail/171/93328/A_reappraisal_of_the_stomach_contents_of_the_Edmon?af=crossref https://archive.org/details/mesozoicvertebra0000unse/page/494/mode/2up https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(13)01394-8?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982213013948%3Fshowall%3Dtrue https://aaps-journal.org/pdf/How-to-Mummify-a-Dinosaur.pdf https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/items/10190e09-d3c8-4eeb-81e2-1ba8291425b4 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3624729?seq=1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3624588?seq=1 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2009.0812 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257446562_A_review_of_hadrosaur_skin_impressions Lystrosaurus: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018222003777?via%3Dihub https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02323-5 Brachylophosaurus (Leonardo): https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Hadrosaurs/E9sMBQAAQBAJ?hl=en https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/sepm/palaios/article-abstract/23/9/624/146014/Probable-Gut-Contents-Within-A-Specimen-Of https://www.science.org/content/article/dinosaur-mummy-unveiled https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/edited_volume/chapter/1913376/pdf https://greatplainsdinosaurs.org/leonardo/ https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/paleosoc/jpaleontol/article-abstract/90/2/279/588431/Trace-fossils-of-possible-parasites-inside-the-gut https://web.archive.org/web/20160702000153/http://www.eartharchives.org/sharebars/409 Thescelosaurus leg: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61013740 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-45658-3 https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1817407116 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04446-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-03232-9 https://scicolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/DePalma_2022.html Tanis site controversy: https://www.science.org/content/article/paleontologist-accused-faking-data-dino-killing-asteroid-paper https://peerj.com/articles/18519/ 0:00 - Intro 1:55 - Frog Mummy! 5:45 - Edmontosaurus dinosaur mummies 16:13 - Lystrosaurus mummies 20:17 - Brachylophosaurus (Leonardo) 24:07 - Thescelosaurus leg 29:18 - Outro