Gilding the Lily
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- Oct 30, 2006
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When you consider the size of our planet and the difficulty in finding anything that small, it is pretty neat when they do stumble upon a fossil remains that have never been seen before.
Dinosaurs remains
Even before this discovery, scientist were starting to uncover evidence that suggests dinosaurs were more closely connected to chicken and ostrich than lizards and alligators. For example, a researcher found proteins preserved in soft tissue—including blood vessels and other connective tissue and perhaps blood cell proteins. These proteins were found to be similar to chicken protein. Not only may this suggest a similarity of Dinosaurs to birds and such, but it also may suggest that collagens last longer than first thought (or that the bones are not quite as old).