Endogenous Proteins Found in a 70-Million-Year-Old Giant Marine Lizard

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Endogenous Proteins Found in a 70-Million-Year-Old Giant Marine Lizard

ScienceDaily (May 2, 2011) — A research team in Lund, Sweden has discovered primary biological matter in a fossil of an extinct varanoid lizard (a mosasaur) that inhabited marine environments during Late Cretaceous times. Using state-of-the-art technology, the scientists have been able to link proteinaceous molecules to bone matrix fibres isolated from a 70-million-year-old fossil -- that is, they have found genuine remains of an extinct animal entombed in stone...

Wow! 65 million years old and still some of the original organism appears to be there!

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Endogenous Proteins Found in a 70-Million-Year-Old Giant Marine Lizard

ScienceDaily (May 2, 2011) — A research team in Lund, Sweden has discovered primary biological matter in a fossil of an extinct varanoid lizard (a mosasaur) that inhabited marine environments during Late Cretaceous times. Using state-of-the-art technology, the scientists have been able to link proteinaceous molecules to bone matrix fibres isolated from a 70-million-year-old fossil -- that is, they have found genuine remains of an extinct animal entombed in stone...

Wow! 65 million years old and still some of the original organism appears to be there!

Jurassic Park, here we come!

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You never know!