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Paleontologists Find Original Collagen in Fossil Bone of Edmontosaurus

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Paleontologists Find Original Collagen in Fossil Bone of Edmontosaurus
Tuinstra et al. used attenuated total reflectance (ATR)-FTIR and cross-polarized light microscopy (XPol) supplemented by two mass spectrometry (MS) techniques to elucidate the question of collagen endogeneity in Edmontosaurus sp. fossil bone. Image credit: Tuinstra et al., doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c03115.

Detection of soft tissues (e.g., proteins) in fossil bones is a growing field of study and a new study led by University of Liverpool paleontologists contributes to the list of such findings.

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