Tag: soft tissue
Fossil Friday: Piltdown Lizard Was Too Good to Check
It was considered to be “one of the oldest fossil reptiles and one of the very few skeletal specimens with evidence of soft tissue preservation.”
Smithsonian’s Racist Brain Collection Exposed by Washington Post
These human specimens were collected in large part to dramatize how non-white peoples were supposedly lower on the evolutionary ladder than whites.
Could We Ever Recover Dinosaur DNA?
There have been a number of unexpected finds from dinosaurs besides bones; some paleontologists dig hopefully.