Tyler Lyson

In 1999, at the age of 16, Yale University geology and geophysics graduate student Tyler Lyson discovered a mummified dinosaur while fossil-hunting on his uncle's farm in the Hell Creek Formation Badlands of North Dakota.

1. Lyson's Hadrosaur discovery has been nicknamed "Dakota"

• Google News: Tyler Lyson
• The Associated Press: Workers Uncovering Mummified Dinosaur (March 19, 2008)
• ScienceDaily: Dinosaur Mummy Found With Fossilized Skin And Soft Tissues (December 3, 2007)
  • A new book from National Geographic, Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs by Phillip Manning, relates the story of Lyson's 1999 discovery of the first-ever dinosaur "skin envelope" to be found.
• WashingtonPost.com: "Scientists Get Rare Look at Dinosaur Soft Tissue" (December 3, 2007)
  • Manning said of Lyson's discovery: "He looks like a blow-up dinosaur in some parts...It just defies logic that such a remarkable specimen could preserve."
• The Australian: "Secrets of the dinosaur mummy" (December 4, 2007)
• Guardian Unlimited: Faster than T rex... (December 3, 2007)
  • Lyson did not initially realize the significance of his discovery, and only returned with a team of excavators in 2004, five years after making the initial find.
• Wired: Rare Mummified Dinosaur Unearthed (December 3, 2007)
• Telegraph.co.uk: "Mummified dinosaur had a big bottom" (December 3, 2007)
• USA Today: "Scientists dig up secrets from dinosaur mummy" (December 3, 2007)
• MediaBistro.com: GalleyCat: National Geographic's Literary Dinosaurs, Redux (December 3, 2007)