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“Exceptionally Well-Preserved" 66-Million-Year-Old Edmontosaurus Reveals Collagen In Dinosaur Bone
Can you get organic compounds in a fossilized bone? There was a time we thought not, but a new study that used a novel ...
Trace fossils reveal clues to evolution of tiny organisms in deep marine ecosystems
Dr. Luis Buatois (Ph.D.) traces a series of hexagons with his finger, following the path carved by tiny organisms millions of ...
Paleontology Shaken: Organic Molecules Found in 66-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Bones
Liverpool researchers' discovery of collagen in fossilized bones could provide new insights into dinosaurs. For years, ...
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Dinosaur bones reveal 80 million-year-old blood vessels that survived ‘deep time’
We wanted to test several hypotheses with this work – the first one being whether we would be able to retrieve these tissues ...
Age and burial environment don't hinder soft tissue preservation in dinosaurs, study suggests
Soft tissue preservation in fossils does not seem to depend upon the species, age or burial environment of the fossils in ...
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Rare Neck Fossil With Puncture Mark Suggests a Prehistoric Crocodilian Snacked on a Young Pterosaur 76 Million Years Ago
The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...