Re: Sue -- fossilized bone

[Jeff Poling <jpoling@dinosauria.com>]

At 10:14 AM 10/7/97 EDT, Karen Seo wrote:
>A friend said yesterday that he'd heard on NPR or some such that
>Sue's bones were real bone not fossilized bone.  This seemed
>vanishingly unlikely after 10's of millions of years, but is
>there any truth to this rumor?

   I don't know about "Sue"'s bones, but I do know that only the outermost
parts of the Wankel T. rex's bones were fossilized, with the inside being
true bone material.  They even found what they think are red blood cells.....

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