Today I learned that despite all the Jurassic movies, we’ve never actually ever recovered dinosaur DNA.

But this physicist (yes a physicist) just came the closest.

Jerit Leo Mitchell is a physicist revolutionizing fossil analysis with particle accelerator light. And he found preserved mineralized blood vessels in the most famous T-Rex ever discovered. Without breaking a single bone.

No Dino DNA yet, but a girl can dream!

Read more here: “In situ analysis of vascular structures in featured Tyrannosaurus rex rib” published in Nature

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