mummified animals

"Join siblings Otto and Nan on a double stuffed adventure to Egypt, where each of them has a completely different experience! While on a trip to Egypt, two siblings, Otto and Nan, stumble upon a sarcophagus. And they accidentally free a mummy cat from a pharaoh's chamber! Now tasked with finding it, their resulting adventure has them exploring the city, learning historical facts, saving each other from danger, and discovering truths about life. What's more, they're going to survive the same adventure--twice!"--OCLC.

Describes archaeological digs which resulted in the finding of soft tissue fossils and dinosaur mummies and discusses how technology is used to figure out what dinosaurs looked like as well as what other knowledge has been gained from such rare discoveries.

Describes animal mummies, some of the most famous animal mummies and where they have been found, how animals are mummified, how scientists study them, and what they can teach us about the past.

Describes the discovery of a mummified hadrosaur found in the remote hills of the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota in 2000 by teenage dino-hunter Tyler Lyson.