Through the Microscope (IMAGE)

Yale University

Through the Microscope

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Dinosaur blood vessel with adjacent bone matrix that still contains bone cells. These structures have a perfect morphological preservation over hundreds of millions of years, but are chemically transformed through oxidative crosslinking. The extract comes from a sauropod dinosaur.

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Jasmina Wiemann/Yale University

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