Small amounts of soft tissues really do survive in old dinosaur bones. When paleontologist Mary Schweitzer reported soft tissue structures inside a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil in 2005, the pushback was fierce. But the evidence has kept accumulating in her favour, and now a University of Liverpool team has combined microscopy, tandem mass spectrometry, and protein sequencing to show the original collagen remains in the Edmontosaurus bone. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260514084421.htm
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