Leonardo, the mummified dinosaur

Those were some of the skeptical comments heard by Dr. Robert Bakker, Curator at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, from distinguished colleagues in the dino-science word.

"I was unconvinced too....until I came up to Malta, Montana myself," says Bakker.

"One glance showed that all us PhD's were wrong. Leonardo the Dinosaur Mummy DOES have his gut contents superbly - beautifully - fossilized. At last, we know what the single most important family of dino-species ate."

Over the past four years, a talented crew of hi-tech, x-ray specialists have scanned and probed and computer-manipulated Leonardo, inventing new techniques. "Northing's the same anymore..." Bakker mused, "from now on...all us dino-hunters will search for bones on the outside AND the secrets on the inside."

Now, Leonardo has made his way down to Houston, for a very special exhibit, Dinosaur Mummy CSI: Cretaceous Science Investigation. In this second video in our ongoing series (check out the first video in the series at this link: http://blog.hmns.org/?p=633), Dr. Bakker explains the inner workings of Leonardo's species from The Great Plains Dinosaur Museum in Malta, Montana.