A 67 million year-old dinosaur mummy was found in 2007!
Preliminary studies of the 67 million year old Hadrosaur, named Dakota, are already changing quite a bit out our understanding of the dinosaur including what the creature’s skin looked like, and how quickly they moved. The dino mummy was found in 1999 by teenage paleontologist Tyler Lyson on his family’s North Dakota property.
The odds of finding a perfectly mummified dinosaur are extremely skim, so the kid hit a paleontological gold mine. First the dinosaur body had to escape predators, scavengers, and degration by weather and water. Then a chemical process must have mineralized the tissue before bacteria ate it. And finally the remains had to survive millions of years undamaged.