Thick Skinned Hadrosaurs

Published: 16th Sep 2014

By far the most common form of fossilised dinosaur skin impressions belong to the hadrosaurs. This has traditionally been explained by the fact that there were numerous duck-billed dinosaurs alive at the time and also that in general they lived in river valleys where they could easily die in flash floods and have their skin impression preserved in the soil.

A new theory has now been proposed that hadrosaurs’ skin was tougher than other dinosaurs, thus giving them longer lasting skin. The new research shows that you are 31 times more likely to get preserved skin impression of a duck-billed dinosaur than any other type.

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