Topic

Destructive sampling of museum specimens

Practice of consuming part of an irreplaceable fossil or collection object for laboratory analysis, and the curatorial judgements that decide when the knowledge is worth the damage.

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Crocodile teeth from the same Montana rock anchor T. rex's 36 C body temperature

A UCLA team read rare-isotope bonds in Tyrannosaurus rex tooth enamel and got about 36 degrees Celsius, a figure that took some 15 years of work to make measurable from a museum-sized sample.

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