Tag Archive for 'Brachylophosaurus canadensis'

Bright field images are shown for vessels harvested as described in methods from (a) ostrich vessels soaked in hemoglobin solution under deoxygenating conditions, (b) ostrich vessels soaked in hemoglobin under oxygenated conditions, (c) vessels recovered from demineralized Brachylophosaurus canadensis and (d) Tyrannosaurus rex bone. Scale bars - 0.5 mm in (a-c) and 0.2 mm in (d). Image credit: Long et al., doi: 10.1098/rspa.2025.0175.

New Study Confirms Partial Hemoglobin Preservation in Dinosaur Remains

Sep 16, 2025 by News Staff

Using a technique called Resonance Raman spectroscopy, paleontologists have detected hemoglobin remnants in bone extracts from two dinosaur species, Brachylophosaurus...

This is a Brachylophosaur canadensis fossil femur in field jacket, showing area of sampling for molecular analyses. Image credit: Mary Schweitzer.

Paleontologists Find Collagen in 80-Million-Year-Old Brachylophosaurus Fossil

Jan 24, 2017 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists led by North Carolina State University researchers has isolated collagen peptides from the fossilized femur of Brachylophosaurus...

Blood vessels from the demineralized Brachylophosaurus canadensis bone. Image credit: M. Schweitzer, North Carolina State University.

Paleontologists Find Mineralized Blood Vessels in 80-Million-Year-Old Hadrosaur Fossil

Dec 1, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

A large team of American scientists has found evidence of blood vessel-like structures in the fossil of Brachylophosaurus canadensis, a mid-sized duck-billed...