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evidence for surviving protein structure in fossil feathers

From RonO@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 23 20:11:21 2023

https://www.ucc.ie/en/mariamcnamara/news/tiffany-has-new-paper-on-fossil-feather-proteins-in-nature-ecology-and-evolution.html

The article is paywalled, but the claim is that they have evidence that
protein structure is preserved in some fossil feathers of dinos and
birds, and that the same beta structure is in dino and bird feathers.

Ron Okimoto

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