How to Mummify a Dinosaur (and Other Fossil Tips and Tricks)

from Geology Podcast Network · host Amy Atwater and Meaghan Wetherell

While usually it’s just the hard bits that fossilize, occasionally the fossil record can preserve things like skin, organs, blood and more. This episode talks about what happens when soft tissue fossilizes, and what weird things scientists have done upon finding it. CW: Dead animals/babies, eating gross things, blood and gushy body bits, placentas.

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