Simple Summary Fossils of dinosaurs other than birds are at least 66 million years old.
Nevertheless, many organic compounds have survived fossilization and can still be found in …

Reptile eggshell ensures water and gas exchange during incubation and plays a key role in
reproductive success. The diversity of reptilian incubation and life history strategies has led …

Delineating cancer tissue while leaving functional tissue intact is crucial in brain tumor
resection. Despite several available aids, surgeons are limited by preoperative or subjective …

A recent article argued that signals from conventional Raman spectroscopy of organic
materials are overwhelmed by edge filter and fluorescence artefacts. The article targeted a …

Lake snow refers to mucilaginous suspended material in lakes comprising of extracellular
polysaccharides (EPS) and other components. The present study employed Raman and …

Finding biomolecules in fossils is a challenging task due to their degradation over time from
physical, chemical, and biological factors. The primary hypothesis for explaining the …

Reports of preserved cells and other soft tissues in ancient vertebrates, including dinosaurs,
have been met with controversy within the field of vertebrate palaeontology. To explain such …

Abstract The late Carboniferous (Middle Pennsylvanian,∼ 307 Ma ago) Mazon Creek
Lagerstätte found in northern Illinois, USA, is unique for its exceptional biotic diversity as …

Raman spectroscopic analyses of thermally altered organic materials can be used to assess
the paleothermometry of the sedimentary deposits. Although this technique has been widely …

Proteins are the most stable of the macromolecules that carry genetic information over long
periods of time. Closed systems are more likely to retain endogenous proteins or their …