Proteins, soft tissue from 80-million-year-old dino support theory that molecules preserve over time
Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 13:35
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A North Carolina State University paleontologist has more evidence that soft tissues and original proteins can be preserved over time - even in fossilized remains - in the form of new protein sequence data from an 80 million-year-old hadrosaur, or duck-billed dinosaur.