"Absolutely incredible!" and "Simply amazing!" - such exclamations are answered by scientists studying the petrified skin of the hadrosaur, known as Dakota. Researchers have discovered cellular structures and organic matter in the skin of the dinosaur.
This specimen was found in 1999 on a ranch in North Dakota and has since been subjected to extensive research, the results of which were recently published.
The article says: “Research has shown that the fossils still retain structures that resemble a cell. Although the proteins of the hadrosaurus skin were destroyed, the amino acid structural elements that were previously part of the protein are still preserved."
The photographs clearly show scales and cross-sections of microscopic tendon structures. The estimated age of this dinosaur is 66 million years, but its skin suggests otherwise.
As with many apparently young dinosaur fossils, this specimen was "extremely well preserved" and also contained "soft tissue replacement structures and associated organic compounds." Using various modern technologies, researchers have established “the survival and presence of organic macromolecules.” 1 They even managed to compare the structure of dinosaur skin with that of living creatures, and they concluded that it resembles the two-layer skin structure of modern birds and reptiles.
The most “amazing” thing about this find was that the structures of soft tissues and organic macromolecules could not survive for the supposed millions of years. The remains of dinosaurs Dakota, Leonardo, B. rex, and other specimens are empirically known to contain organic molecules (including proteins).
The very presence of these materials contradicts the "millions of years" attributed to them. Nevertheless, scientists are trying in every possible way to support the interpretation of the "ancient age", resorting to various tricks.
However, the Dakota dinosaur demonstrates that it has no signs of age even at 1 million years. The most logical explanation for the presence of well-preserved organic skin molecules would be that these are the remains of an animal that died relatively recently.
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The biblical data not only provides us with a time frame for the death of dinosaurs - several thousand years ago, but also corresponds to the interpretation of the death of this dinosaur, proposed by the authors of the study, which, they say, "fell into a watery grave."
One of the reasons paleontologists didn't find soft tissue until recently is because they didn't expect to find it. It is likely that dinosaur mummies are more common in the fossil record than suggested, disproving the idea of millions of years.