Itching for info from 50-million-year-old skin

Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 12:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

We mostly know of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals by their now lifeless fossils. But the remains of a 50-million-year-old reptile from Utah have just yielded organic compounds that scientists have imaged in vivid detail, according to new research.

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