'Defies Logic'

"He looks like a blow-up dinosaur in some parts. When you actually look at the detail of the skin, the scales themselves are three dimensional . . The arm is breathtaking. It's a three-dimensional arm, you can shake the dinosaur by the hand. It just defies logic that such a remarkable specimen could preserve."

--Phillip Manning, paleontologist at the University of Manchester in England who is leading the inquiry into this mummified hadrosaur.

"It's a dinosaur that was turned into stone, essentially."

--Tyler Lyson, who originally discovered the dinosaur as a high school student in North Dakota in 1999, now a graduate student in paleontology at Yale University.

"It's almost as if we've geochemically preserved this dinosaur laboratory, and we've only just unlocked the door."

--Roy Wogelius, geochemist at the University of Manchester.

Maybe they'll even get around to explaining how biomatter waits around long enough to turn to stone.

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