But that is precisely what Michael Habib, a biologist at the University of Southern California proposed last week to a packed hall at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Los Angeles. (scientificamerican.com)
«Among other proteins, we managed to find collagen, one of the most important proteins in the bodies of animals in general, and in vertebrates in particular.» (scientificamerican.com)
These and other details about the two animals that lived about 142 million years ago were presented by biologist Pernille Venø Troelsen from University of Southern Denmark on July 10 2015 at XIII Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists in Opole, Poland. (sciencedaily.com)