Scientists excited about discovery that, if confirmed, would be first of its kind. | CBCSask
Barbi is part of a team that includes U of R physics Masters student Jerit Mitchell and Ryan McKellar, the Royal Saskatchewan Museum's curator of invertebrate paleontology.
"Actually, I had no idea what it was," Mitchell said "As I am a physicist myself, I was really new to this project and new to paleontology … I just saw this interesting structure that was kind of weaving its way in between the normal bone structure. We have to find out what we can do next, what kind of analysis can we do to look into this deeper."For centuries, it's been thought that there's effectively no trace of biological tissue in a fossil — that there shouldn't be," he said.
"One of our hypotheses is that this fracture might sort of be the cause of seeing this vascular structure," he said. "So we don't see this rampant vascular structure in another section of the bone. We only see it around where this fracture is."
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