Fossilized Dino Bones Are Home to Diverse Microbial Communities

Written by
Catherine Offord
June 28, 2019

Catherine Offord - The Scientist - June 28, 2019

Renxing Liang, coauthor and postdoc in Tullis Onstott’s  geomicrobiology group at Princeton University says, “Surprisingly, we found that the DNA yield in the bone was much higher—almost 50 times higher—than the adjacent mudstone. . . . "