CSI Dinosaur Mummy

With names like Brachylophosaurus canadensis and Bambiraptor you know better than to pet them. Of course you couldn't if you wanted to because they lived 75 million years ago. The only place that living dinosaurs and humans shared common ground was on The Flintstones unless you believe in creationism. Yet you can see Leonardo, not Da Vinci (although they've got him coming too) but a duckbilled dinosaur that died and was preserved in sand and now fossilized at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
The skeleton of a Bambiraptor stands nearly complete on display close to Leonardo, in addition to an Ichthyosaur mummy, other dinosaur bones and a four-ton geode. Actually the rock is a stand alone attraction, its crystalized interior lit up from inside.
Leo was named for an inscription on a rock near where it was found on a ranch in Montana. There's also a cyclorama that depicts several of Leo's contemporaries along a winding hallway that leads to a sandpit where kids (no adults allowed) can play excavate dino bones.
Then we get to Leo, encased in a waist level case so you have to bow to stare at its death gaze. Leo rests in a kind of fetal position and was obviously covered by the elements soon after its demise, preserving its skin and organs, so complete is the mummy. A team of paleontologists supervised moving the case into its museum resting spot as seen in the video below. The Dinosaur Mummy CSI: Cretaceous Science Investigation exhibit remains on display until next January.