Amazing find of dinosaur 'mummy'

Fossil hunters have uncovered the remains of a dinosaur that has much of its soft tissue still intact.

Skin, muscle, tendons and other tissue that rarely survive fossilisation have all been preserved in the specimen unearthed in North Dakota, US.

The 67 million-year-old dinosaur is one of the duck-billed hadrosaur group.

The preservation allowed scientists to estimate that it was more muscular than thought, perhaps giving it the ability to outrun predators like T. rex.

The researchers propose that the dinosaur's rump was 25% larger than had previously been thought. This probably meant more muscle mass and therefore greater acceleration, giving it a greater chance of evading meat-eating dinosaurs in hot pursuit.

Depth and structure

While it has been dubbed a dinosaur "mummy", the dinosaur is actually fossilised into stone.

But unlike the collections of bones found in many museums, this hadrosaur came complete with fossilised skin, ligaments, tendons and possibly some internal organs, according to researchers.

"It's unbelievable when you look at it for the first time," said palaeontologist Phillip Manning from the University of Manchester, UK.

The scales are still visible on the fossilised skin

"There is depth and structure to the skin. The level of detail expressed in the skin is just breathtaking."

Dr Manning said there was a pattern of banding to the larger and smaller scales on the skin.

Because it has been fossilised researchers do not know the colour of the skin. But looking at it in monochrome shows a striped pattern. He noted that in modern reptiles, such a pattern is often associated with transitions between different skin colours.

The fossil was found in 1999 and is now nicknamed Dakota. It is being analysed in the world's largest CT scanner, operated by the Boeing corporation.

The machine usually is used for space shuttle engines and other large objects. Researchers hope the technology will help them learn more about the fossilised insides of the creature.

The reptile had no chest cavity, suggesting it had been partially eaten by predators before being "mummified" in unusual conditions: acidic, waterlogged sediments collected around the dinosaur, triggering the rapid deposit of minerals and trapping organic molecules before they decayed.

Jordon Lloyd Wins Big Brother 11

Finally its out, Jordan Lloyd has been declared the winner of the Big Brother 11, and that also makes the sole contender of the 500,000 dollar grand prize.

Buzz up!

Known for tongue-in-cheek a bit tardy style, the 22-year old works as a waitress in Matthews, NC, however, she ousted the schemer, 24-year old college graduate Gilbert from Arizona to win the title in this CBS reality Show.

	The two-hour long finale had the two final contestants thorough being interrogated by the jury member, while the rest unlucky 13 watched it from the side seats.

The jury voted Lloyd a winner as she went went on garner most votes from the jury as well as from the audience.

The two-hour long finale had the two final contestants thorough being interrogated by the jury member, while the rest unlucky 13 watched it from the side seats. However, the audience did miss the presence of Chima Siomone, a freelance journalist, who got expelled from the show after he threw the microphone into a spa.

Kanye West FINALLY apologises to Taylor Swift after Obama calls him a jackass

Kanye West has finally apologised to Taylor Swift for his MTV Video Music Awards outrage, after Barack Obama called him a jackass over the incident.

The U.S. President voiced his opinion on the shameful incident, which was beamed live to 27million households in America, and shortly afterward the rapper finally did the decent thing and called the country star.

Despite saying sorry on his blog and talking about the incident on TV, it took West two days to speak to the 19-year-old star and offer a personal apology.

Rattled: Taylor Swift admitted Kanye West had not apologised for his hijack of her speech on TV show The View yesterday

He phoned her yesterday to apologise for leaping on stage and ripping the microphone from her hands to declare that Beyonce should have won her award.

Swift had appeared on TV show The View where she admitted that she had been 'rattled' by his onstage hijack and said he hadn't apologised to her.

'He has not personally reached out or anything but if he wanted to say hi (I would),' she said.

The rapper called the country star after the show aired and spoke to her over the phone to finally make his apology

'I'm not gonna say that I wasn't riled by it. I had to perform live five minutes later so I had to get myself back to the place where I could perform.'

The shamed star then called Swift, and she accepted his apologies, according to publicists from the show.

West has taken a drubbing since the event.

While he issued two apologies on his blog after the incident, he gave another, emotional one on Monday's NBC premiere of The Jay Leno Show.

The President's colourful remark, where he called West a 'jackass', was made during an interview with U.S. network CNBC and was meant to be kept off the record.

Shamed: Kanye West appeared close to tears as he made a rambling apology to Taylor Swift on Jay Leno's late-night talk show on Monday

But the comment leaked out to news sites after a reporter from rival network ABC posted the comment on micro-blogging site Twitter.

'Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a "jackass" for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT'S presidential,' reporter Terry Moran wrote.

Unimpressed: Barack Obama disapproved of West's onstage antics

Fellow musicians were outraged at West's behaviour. Singer Kelly Clarkson called West 'a sad human being', while American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert wrote on his Twitter page, 'Kanye needs to chill. He freaks out every year. It ain't that deep, man.'

West made an impromptu appearance on Jay Leno's late-night show to apologise to Swift, saying he wanted to say sorry to her in person.

The rapper said he was sorry for being 'rude'.

Viewers were shocked by his antics at Sunday night's awards - beforehand he was seen swigging cognac from a bottle on the red carpet.

West told Leno he was planning to take a break from the music industry and to assess his behaviour, which he partly sought to excuse with the recent death of his mother Donda.

As the host introduced his guest, he said: 'This really wasn't planned but Kanye wanted to talk, so please welcome Kanye West.'

Remorse: Kanye told Jay Leno (right) that he plans to take time off to reflect

When he sat down, Leno said to him: 'Tell us about your day. Have you had a tough day today?'

Taylor Swift appearing a little bit shaken up yesterday as she stops at Starbucks with band members in New York

His voice cracking, West - dressed all in black - said: 'It's been extremely difficult, just dealing with the fact that I hurt someone or took anything away, you know, from a talented artist - or from anyone.

'But I need to, after this, take some time off and just analyse how I'm going to make it through the rest of this life, how I'm going to improve. Because I am a celebrity, and that's something I have to deal with.

'It was rude, period.

'And, you know, I'd like to be able to apologise to her in person. And I wanted to...'

West was angered at the MTV awards by the victory of Swift in Best Female Video category for You Belong To Me.

She was left humiliated as West turned to the audience after grabbing her microphone and shouting that the gong should have gone to his friend Beyonce, for her video for Single Ladies.

He was booed by the star-studded audience and ejected from the theatre.

The outburst on the live telecast was seen by some 27million viewers - the largest TV audience since 2002 for the annual MTV Video Music Awards, MTV said on Monday.

Video of the incident was seen about 2million times on the MTV.com website alone.

But West appeared on the verge of tears when asked what he thought his late mother would have said about the incident.

Donda West, 58, died in November 2007 from complications following cosmetic surgery.

When Leno asked when he knew he was doing something wrong, West replied: 'As soon as I gave the mic back to her and she didn't keep going.'

The talk show host then asked if he thought his mother would have been disappointed in his behaviour.

After pausing for several seconds, he said: 'Yeah.

'Obviously, I deal with hurt.

'And you know, so many celebrities, they never take time off. I've never taken the time off to really - you know, just music after music and tour after tour.

'I'm just ashamed that my hurt caused someone else's hurt - and I don't try to justify it because I was just in the wrong. That's period.

'I only wanted to help people. My entire life, I've only wanted to give and do something that I felt was right.

'And I immediately knew in this situation that it was wrong and it wasn't a spectacle. It was actually someone's emotions that I stepped on.

Storming the stage: Kanye took the microphone from Taylor Swift during her speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards

'And if there's anything I could do to help Taylor in the future or help anyone, I'd like - you know, I want to live this thing. It's hard sometimes.'

West spoke on Leno's show before performing with Jay-Z and Rihanna on Jay-Z's song Run This Town.

Swift, the biggest-selling artist of 2008 in the United States with more than 4million albums, said little on Sunday about the outburst.

'I've been getting so many text messages and everybody's been really nice. So I've had a really, really fun night. It's been interesting definitely. It's definitely been an interesting night,' she said.

West has been in trouble before with ill-timed comments, raising scenes after losing awards himself at the VMAs, the Grammys and the American Music Awards.

In 2005, West said during a telethon to raise money for victims after Hurricane Katrina that President George W. Bush 'doesn't care about black people'.

West had already been set to perform on Leno's first prime-time show on NBC, but asked for time to talk with the controversy swirling.

It was reminiscent of when Hugh Grant appeared on the Tonight show with Leno in 1995 to make amends after being arrested with a prostitute - only this time there weren't many laughs.