{"id":205616,"date":"2025-02-05T10:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/beyond-doubt-proteins-in-fossil-from-actual-dinosaur-claim-scientists"},"modified":"2025-02-05T10:22:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:22:02","slug":"beyond-doubt-proteins-in-fossil-from-actual-dinosaur-claim-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/beyond-doubt-proteins-in-fossil-from-actual-dinosaur-claim-scientists","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Beyond Doubt\u2019: Proteins in Fossil From Actual Dinosaur, Claim Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beyond-doubt-proteins-in-fossil-from-actual-dinosaur-claim-scientists.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have discovered clear chemical traces of decaying collagen in a duck-billed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/dinosaurs\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">dinosaur<\/a> fossil, upending previously held notions that any organic material found within such ancient fossils must be from some source of contamination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis research shows beyond doubt that organic biomolecules, such as proteins like collagen, appear to be present in some fossils,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.liverpool.ac.uk\/2025\/01\/31\/discovery-of-collagen-in-fossil-bone-could-unlock-new-insights-into-dinosaurs\/\">says<\/a> University of Liverpool materials scientist Steve Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur results have far-reaching implications. Firstly, it refutes the hypothesis that any organics found in fossils must result from contamination.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered clear chemical traces of decaying collagen in a duck-billed dinosaur fossil, upending previously held notions that any organic material found within such ancient fossils must be from some source of contamination. \u201cThis research shows beyond doubt that organic biomolecules, such as proteins like collagen, appear to be present in some fossils,\u201d says [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}