Friday, March 25, 2005
T-Rex Bone Yeilds Soft Tissue Structures
Palaeontologists have extracted soft, flexible structures that appear to be blood vessels from the bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex that died 68 million years ago. They also have found small red microstructures that resemble red blood cells.
The discovery suggests biological information can be recovered from a wider range of fossil material than realised, which would greatly help the tracing of evolutionary relationships.
Reported by Jeff Hecht in New Scientist.
The discovery suggests biological information can be recovered from a wider range of fossil material than realised, which would greatly help the tracing of evolutionary relationships.
Reported by Jeff Hecht in New Scientist.
