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News Release 07-038
Ancient T. rex and Mastodon Protein Fragments Discovered, Sequenced
68-million-year-old T. rex proteins are oldest ever sequenced
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Ancient proteins have been found in bones like those of a 68-million-year-old dinosaur T. rex fossil.
Credit: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation
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