Prehistoric North Carolina

Fossil-hunters once pulled only bones out of the dirt. Then they started pulling up whole skeletons as one big rock, using X-rays and MRIs to catch images of the organs of dinosaurs in the rock. Then they started examining pollen particles accompanying the fossilized bones.

I wonder what important evidence we are destroying today, when we exhume fossils, that future innovations will cherish?


Iron Concretion from a Fossilized Dinosaur Heart

Iron Concretion from a Fossilized Dinosaur Heart

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