A Major T. Rex Breakthrough (washingtonpost.com)

A Major T. Rex Breakthrough (washingtonpost.com): "A Major T. Rex Breakthrough
Broken Bone Leads to Discovery of Soft Tissues

By Guy Gugliotta
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 25, 2005; Page A01

Paleontologists have recovered what appear to be soft tissues from the thighbone of a 70 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, potentially enabling dinosaur research to make a leap into studying the animals' physiology and perhaps even their cell biology, the research team said yesterday."