Found in China's Liaoning Province, the <i>Psittacosaurus</i> fossil now sits on display in Frankfurt, Germany’s Senckenberg Natural History Museum, where it has yielded one discovery after another.
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Dinosaur-skin fossils aren’t unheard of: North American hadrosaur “mummies,” for instance, preserve areas of scales. But this Psittacosaurus has possibly the most skin preserved from a single non-avian dinosaur—and even contains vestiges of its melanin pigmentation. “It’s been such a treasure trove,” says Jakob Vinther, a paleontologist at the U.K.’s University of Bristol who has closely studied the dinosaur.
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