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115-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Bones Preserve Chemical Traces of Red Blood Cells


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.

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