Experts Claim They Found T. Rex Innards ; Tissue Nearly Identical to That of Ostrich, Tests Show
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › March 25, 2005
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In bone blasted from Montana sandstone, fossil hunters for the first time have discovered the microscopic meat of a Tyrannosaurus rex, preserved almost unaltered since the dinosaur died 70 million years ago, scientists announced Thursday.
Scientists at North Carolina State University and the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Mont., found brownish oblong cells, elastic threads of veins and pliable dabs of red bone marrow in the core of a stout hind leg, the researchers reported in the journal Science. The translucent vessels were so elastic that when one was stretched out and then released, it snapped back like a rubber band.See the full content of this document
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Experts Claim They Found T. Rex Innards ; Tissue Nearly Identical to That of Ostrich, Tests Show
"To my knowledge, preservation to this extent has not been noted in dinosaurs before," said paleontologist Mary H. Schweitzer at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, who led the ...
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