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Originally Posted by _indigo1
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The lady scientist took a left field approach and sliced up some bone samples from a big T-Rex discovery after a large bone got broken down to enable shipping and some bits chipped off. Then she took the bone samples to a vet convention and someone mentioned that here was blood in them. She realised that using weak acid might dissolve bone and reveal any underlaying tissue - found a weird bit of gunk in a petrie dish after three days, and when she looked under a scope found red circles - another lab assistant was a bird specialist and recognised structures in the bone that matched what female birds do in transferring calcium during breeding season to allow egg creation. Long and short was that the T-Rex was a lady dino and about to lay eggs.
Later on after dissolving the bone, she managed to use Ostrich and Emu protein connectors and found dino proteins in the tissue, which have a much better chance of providing DNA strands.
No word yet on life finding a way.