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Plaster Cast from Pompeii
 

Animal Mummies

 

 

 

Blue Babe the Bison: The mummy of a 36,000 year-old male bison was discovered just north of Fairbanks, Alaska, made for an interesting stew.

Damien Hirst's Animal Mummies: British artist Damien Hirst has created controversial artworkusing the preserved (and sometimes not-so-preserved) corpses of animals. See what you think.

Dolly the Cloned Sheep: The first adult mammal ever cloned is now a mummy in a Scottish museum 

Egyptian Animal Mummies: They came in four varieties, but the saddest of all the animal mummies were the kittens of Egypt.

Hunting Dog Mummy: Many animals have been mummified, but few have a mummy tale as unique as the hound dog of Waycross, Georgia.

 

Dinosaur Mummies

Dakota the Hadrosaur: The latest and perhaps most important discovery of a dinosaur mummy fossil.

Dinosaur #1: Scipionyx samniticus with preserved soft tissue.

Dinosaur #2: Santanaraptor with preserved soft tissue.

Dinosaur #3: Fossilized preserved skin

Leonardo the Brachylophosaurus: a two-legged, plant-eating duck-billed dinosaur with 80 percent of its skin and muscles intact.

 

 

 

 
 

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