This undated handout photo provided by the National Geographic Society
shows the scale of the fossilized skin of a duckbilled hadrosaur found
in 1999 in North Dakota. Soft parts of dead animals normally decompose
rapidly after death. Because of chemical conditions where this animal
died, fossilization took place faster than the decomposition, leaving
mineralized portions of the tissue. One of the most complete dinosaur
mummies ever found is revealing secrets locked away for millions of
years, bringing researchers as close as they will ever get to touching
a live dinosaur.
Photo by Tyler Lyson
Tuesday, November 20, 2007, 02:20 PM CST [General]
Traffic in Newport, Vt. was interrupted just before noon time when this
moose paid a visit to the downtown area on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007.
The moose which walked down Main Street, across yards and parking lots
brought the attention of many residents who grabbed their cameras and
camera phones to take pictures of this rare site in the busy downtown
area.
Photo by Christopher Roy
In this image released by the San Diego Zoo, a zoo worker cares for two
of the world's most critically endangered great apes, called bonobos,
Friday, Nov. 9, 2007, at the San Diego Zoo's Children Zoo nursery in
San Diego. With wild populations being decimated at alarming rates in
Democratic Republic of Congo, the recent birth of a male infant named
Tutapenda, left, on Oct. 29 is a significant milestone for conservation
efforts. He joins his two-month-old half-sister Mali who is also being
hand-raised due to medical complications at birth.
Photo by Ken Bohn
