New evidence backs up claim of dinosaur soft tissue find
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 09:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study, biochemist James San Antonio and colleagues offer evidence to support the claims by Mary Higby Schweitzer back in 2005, that she and her colleagues had unearthed a soft tissue specimen that belonged to a Tyrannosaurus rex. Roundly criticized by many in the science community, the specimen, discovered inside a femur fragment, has yet to be proven to be anything else. Now, in a paper published on PLoS ONE, San Antonio and his colleagues (including Mary Schweitzer) claim theyve found a plausible explanation for the survival of soft dinosaur material after some 68 million years.