X-rays reveal chemical link between birds and dinosaurs
Monday, May 10, 2010 - 20:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Using the bright X-ray beam of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, an international team of researchers has found that a 150 million year old "dinobird" fossil, long thought to contain nothing but fossilized bone and rock, has been hiding remnants of the animal's original chemistry.