Dinosaur mummy yields organic molecules
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 19:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The extremely well-preserved remains of a 66-million-year-old hadrosaur, known as a "dinosaur mummy," have just yielded soft-tissue skin structures and organic molecules.
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