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Researchers report fossilized red blood cells in a 115-million-year-old dinosaur bone

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A team led by geochemist Kliti Grice at Curtin University in Perth says it has found red blood cell-shaped structures and chemical traces of heme inside the limb bone of Aratasaurus museunacionali, a 3-meter theropod from northeastern Brazil that died about 115 million years ago. The paper appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Study traces Devil's Arrows stones to Brimham Rocks, 11 miles away

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Britain's tallest surviving stone row, the Devil's Arrows near Boroughbridge, has guarded its secret for 4,000 years: where did the three pillars come from? New research answers it. Builders hauled each 25-tonne stone 18 kilometers from Brimham Rocks, bypassing nearer sources.

Updated Sep 9