Dinosaur Soft Tissue (Classroom Series)

Anyway, as I was saying, dinosaurs died out millions of years ago, and we have their hardest rock fossils to prove it.

Did you know that there are over 120 scientific publications that show that biomaterials are still in ancient bones?

50 publications for dinosaurs specifically. But these bones are solid rock. Some are, but many aren't.

Here, check this out. Many dinosaur bones still have blood cells and vessels, hemoglobin, bone cells, histones, skin pigments, and collagen.

They even found cartilage and nerve cells in some dinosaur bones. How could they last for millions of years?