Sentences with phrase «soft organic tissues»
Minerals precipitated rapidly in its skin, forming a replacement framework before the soft organic tissues decomposed.
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On the flip side, Jeffrey Bada, an organic geochemist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, can not imagine soft tissue surviving millions of years.
The remains seemed like soft tissue — specifically matrix, the organic part of bone, which consists primarily of collagen.
Patrick Orr at University College Dublin is bringing together geologists and organic geochemists to look for soft tissue in a 10 - million - year - old frog fossil.