It is the kind of discovery that makes dinosaur enthusiasts gasp. A groupof scientists were working on a fossil from a Tyrannosaurus Rex, when they noticed there seemed to be some soft tissue inside. They used chemical proceses to dissolve away the rock and found actual dinosaur flesh inside! They found intact cells whose structures seem to be intact, which may mean the samples will yield dino DNA. Jurassic Park may not be as far away as we had thought! Further there appears to be enough flesh on the sample to finally figure out whether the reptiles - or at least Rex - were old blooded or warm blooded.
The other earth-shaking part of this is that standard theories of fossil formation do not allow for this kind of phenomenon. Which means there may be other forces at work in fossilization, and may mean that a lot more preseved when something becomes perified than we ever expected.
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