First healed dinosaur wound discovery

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From National Geographic:

Scarred Duckbill Dinosaur Escaped T. Rex Attack

A fossilized bite mark on a duckbill dinosaur indicates it survived a T. rex attack.

Ker Than

for National Geographic News

Published February 28, 2013

A scar on the face of a duckbill dinosaur received after a close encounter with a Tyrannosaurus rex is the first clear case of a healed dinosaur wound, scientists say.

The finding, detailed in the current issue of the journal Cretaceous Research, also reveals that the healing properties of dinosaur skin were likely very similar to that of modern reptiles.

The lucky dinosaur was an adult Edmontosaurus annectens, a species of duckbill dinosaur that lived in what is today the Hell Creek region of South Dakota about 65 to 67 million years ago.

A teardrop-shaped patch of fossilized skin about…

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