NSF Finds Soft Tissue in T. rex Dinosaur Fossil

In a story that borders on the incredible, the National Science Foundation has reported finding soft tissue, including still-flexible blood vessels, in the fossilized leg bone of a 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur specimen. According to paleontologists at North Carolina State University, the ancient dinosaur cells are "virtually identical" to those of modern ostriches. Read more...