T Rex guts excavated

By at 1:21 pm Thursday, Mar 24

The remains of a T. Rex with intact blood vessels and blood cells have been recovered:
The field team used standard procedure as they excavated the bones, wrapping them in plaster jackets before transporting them..

This particular dinosaur fossil was too big to lift and they reluctantly cracked a thighbone.

Usually paleontologists put preservatives on fossils right away, but Schweitzer has been trying to find soft tissue in dinosaur fossils, so this one was left alone.

Link (Thanks, Alex!)

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