摘要
A team of scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology(IVPP)of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and from the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Natural History have isolated exquisitely preserved cartilage cells in a125-million-year-old dinosaur from northeast China that contain nuclei with remnants of organic molecules and chromatin.The study was published in Communications Biology on Sept.24.