The holotype (MPSC R 2089) of Aratasaurus museunacionali gen. et sp. nov., photos and drawings from the lateral (A, B) and (C, D) medial views. Abbreviations: cnc, cnemial crest; fe, femur; fosme, fossa medial; lcnrig, lateral cnemial rigde; ti, tibia; tic, tibia crest. Scale bar: 50 mm.
The fossilized remains belong to Aratasaurus museunacionali, a species of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now northeastern Brazil during the Early Cretaceous epoch, some 115 million years ago. The post 115-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Bones Preserve Chemical Traces of Red Blood Cells appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.
