Good ribbance: Dinosaur rib bones reveal remnants of 195-million-year-old protein

Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - 14:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Is fossilized rock all that remains when a dinosaur decomposes? New research provides the first evidence that proteins have been preserved within the 195-million-year-old rib of the sauropodomorph dinosaur Lufengosaurus.

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