But it wasn't just a fossil skeleton- much of the skin, internal organs, and flesh appeared to have been fossilized along with the bones.
The first fossil skeletons of whales were discovered in the winter of 1902-3.
So you think I am no more than a simulacrum-reconstructed like the fossil skeleton of some Megatherium in a museum?
The best specimen the team uncovered on July 4, 1899 was a nearly complete fossil skeleton of Diplodicus.
Coelophysis bauri is known from a number of complete fossil skeletons.
But the new fossil skeletons are more complete and definitive, they said.
Five incomplete fossil skeletons have been found in Mongolia.
One fossil skeleton contains the skeletons of ten or more juveniles.
Koch cobbled together a fossil skeleton and included excess bones as the "Missourium".
Subsequent excavation at this site turned up the fossil skeleton of Animantarx; no bones had been exposed on the surface.