Scientists Just Discovered 125 million-year-old Dinosaur Dandruff

Journalist Neel V. Patel covered a story about scientists who just recently discovered some dinosaur fossils that seemed to contain some dandruff. This discovery explains how dinosaurs did something many other creatures do today, which is shed skin. Mike Benton, a professor of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Bristol and a coauthor of the new study, states that this will “tell us that dinosaurs were like birds, shedding their skin in small flakes.” During the group’s work using microscopes they identified specks as corneocytes, which are tough cells composed of twisted fibers of keratin, found both in modern birds and human dandruff. I find this article very interesting as it pertains to science and dinosaurs, which are two topics that intrigue me and I think it is important to keep studying these fossils because it will give us more insight into how dinosaurs actually were millions of years ago. [1 image, 1 link, 1 quotation, 150 words]