Electron Microscopy of Abiotically-formed Structures as an Explanation for 'Dinosaur Blood' (IMAGE)

University of Bristol

Electron Microscopy of Abiotically-formed Structures as an Explanation for 'Dinosaur Blood'

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Electron microscopy of abiotically-formed structures as an explanation for 'dinosaur blood'. A) Moderately matured turkey skin. B) Proposed blood-like structures in a dinosaur bone (modified from Bertazzo et al. (2015, online Supplementary Fig. 3c) and used under Creative Commons CC-BY license). Presented here with a defined scale bar. Arrowheads indicate several shared structures: (1) concave bulge/fold continuous with the underlying organic material; (2) pit/simple fold; (3) spherical bulge.

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