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    The team found that although the proteins that made up the hadrosaur's skin had degraded, the amino acid building blocks that once made up the proteins were still present. "We're looking at the altered products of proteins from the skin of this animal, locked within the three dimensional mineralised skin" Dr Manning told BBC News. Full Article at BBC News
    We're looking at the altered products of proteins from the skin of this animal, locked within the three dimensional mineralised skin
    SOURCE: BBC News 5 months ago
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Dinosaur mummy yields its secrets
  1. This kind of discovery just demonstrates very clearly that soft tissue does survive, that the processes involved are unusual but not absolutely extraordinary - so there's no reason why this kind of material won't be discovered again.
    SOURCE: BBC News 5 months ago
  2. You're looking at cell-like structures; you slice through this and you're looking at the cell structure of dinosaur skin. That is absolutely gobsmacking.
    SOURCE: BBC News 5 months ago
  3. Whereas most of us have to deal with disjointed sentences and occasional fractured words to reconstruct the volumes of the fossil record, you've got a whole chapter lying there and you can flick through the pages at your leisure
    SOURCE: BBC News 5 months ago
  4. One can't be certain, but I suspect that in many cases these kinds of skin impressions have gone unnoticed and people have gone after the skeleton, which is of course what you'd expect to be preserved
    SOURCE: BBC News 5 months ago
  5. If you've got a hypothesis and you can't test it, it remains a hypothesis. Now we've had an exceptionally preserved dinosaur which has allowed us to ask that question and answer it for the first time
    SOURCE: BBC News 5 months ago
  6. If you understand the distribution of these structures in the skin of a prey animal, you can understand something about predator-prey interactions, and it might explain some of the hadrosaur fossils we see with these bite marks
    SOURCE: BBC News 5 months ago

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