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Published online 12 April 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070409-11
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Dinosaur protein sequenced
Lucky find shows up record-breaking fossil.
Palaeontologists have sequenced some protein from a 68-million-year-old fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex bone.
The protein — a key component of bone and connective tissue called collagen — blasts the record for the oldest protein ever sequenced.
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