Scientists extract tissue from 80m-year-old dinosaur bone

SCIENTISTS have extracted blood vessels and soft connective tissue from an 80 million-year-old dinosaur bone.

The fossil is 12 million years older than a previous Tyrannosaurus rex specimen which yielded a similar discovery two years ago, amid much controversy.

The new fossil, a thigh bone, belonged to a plant-eating, duck-billed dinosaur, or hadrosaur. It appeared to be even better preserved than the T-rex bone after being buried deep in sandstone.