- Palaeontologists have announced the discovery of organic material in 75-million year old dinosaur fossils.
- The team claims to have found evidence of cartilage cells, proteins, chromosomes and even DNA preserved inside the fossils, suggesting these can survive for far longer than we thought.
- The researchersmade the discovery in skull fragments of Hypacrosaurus, a duck-billed herbivore from the Cretaceous period.
- These particular specimens were “nestlings”, meaning that at time of death they weren’t yet old enough to leave the nest.