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Scientists with ties to Montana State University recover preserved soft tissue from Montana dinosaur

March 25, 2005 /

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Researchers with ties to Montana State University have recovered 70-million-year-old soft tissue, including what may be blood vessels and cells, from a Tyrannosaurus rex unearthed in northeastern Montana’s Hell Creek formation.

If scientists can isolate proteins from the material, they may be able to learn new details of how dinosaurs lived, said lead researcher Mary Higby Schweitzer of North Carolina State University.

"We’re doing a lot of stuff in the lab right now that looks promising," she said.

But, she said, she does not know yet if scientists will be able to isolate dinosaur DNA from the materials.

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