Fossilised red blood cells found in 115m-year-old dinosaur’s bone, say scientists
- It could be the opening of a Jurassic Park rip-off: scientists examining ancient dinosaur bones find what appear to be fossilised red blood cells, and traces of the molecule that gives the beast’s blood its distinctive crimson hue.
- But that is what researchers are claiming to have discovered after analysing the hind leg bones of a small, meat-eating dinosaur called an Aratasaurus that lived and died in what is now north-eastern Brazil 115m years ago.
- Electron microscope images of the dinosaur bones revealed small, round structures that resemble red blood cells in fine channels where blood vessel
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- It could be the opening of a Jurassic Park rip-off: scientists examining ancient dinosaur bones find what appear to be fossilised red blood cells, and traces of the molecule that gives the beast’s blood its distinctive crimson hue.
- But that is what researchers are claiming to have discovered after analysing the hind leg bones of a small, meat-eating dinosaur called an Aratasaurus that lived and died in what is now north-eastern Brazil 115m years ago.
- Electron microscope images of the dinosaur bones revealed small, round structures that resemble red blood cells in fine channels where blood vessel
Sources: Guardian