The first thing that popped into my mind when I saw this story was the movie Jurassic Park, and dinosaur cloning - that may not happen obviously, but this discovery may give us some clues into the bio-structures of these ancient creatures.
"A dinosaur bone buried for 80 million years has yielded a mix of proteins and microstructures resembling cells. [Scientists] report recovering not just collagen - which conveys little evolutionary information because it is the same in almost all animals - but also haemoglobin, elastin and laminin, as well as cell-like structures resembling blood and bone cells. The proteins should reveal more about dinosaur evolution because they vary much more between species".
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