Stunningly intact dinosaur fossil found in Germany

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The almost perfectly complete fossil of a young theropod dinosaur – including some preserved hair and skin* (see update below) – was unveiled yesterday by scientists from the Bavarian paleontological and geological collections (BSPG) in Munich, Germany. BSPG conservator Oliver Rauhut described it as the best preserved dinosaur skeleton to have ever been found in Europe.
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http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/10/stunningly_intact_dinosaur_fos.html

[Scuba]

1. V. cool. thanks for posting. n/t

[kayakjohnny]

2. That detail is amazing! Thanks for the find.

And the post.

[Rabblevox]

3. Cool find, and beautiful pic. TY! /nt

[Odin2005]

4. That's the same rock formation where Archeopterix was found, yes?

:wow:

[eppur_se_muova]

6. Maybe -- it's in the right general vicinity ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solnhofen_limestone

[Lint Head]

5. Ooooo, it was just a little baby.

[krispos42]

7. It's so beautiful...

...you can't even see the fingerprints where God put it in the ground 6,000 years ago.

[petronius]

8. What's the separate bone just under the chin? Is that in its proper place?

Awesome find!

[frogmarch]

9. Probably part of the hyoid

apparatus. In a stegosaur specimen described in the 1930s, the hyoid was said to be composed of two rodlike elements in the throat region. It may have been similar in theropods.

[petronius]

10. Cool, thanks! Now I have to go read up on hyoids...

:)

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

11. It would be even cooler if it was 'glow in the dark'

I would love to have something like that in my place - a full sized glow in the dark accurate dino skeleton!