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Oldest evidence of bone found in 400 million-year-old fish fossils

You've probably never really wondered where your skeleton came from, but that has puzzled paleontologists for over a century. In particular the question mark was hovering over the skeletons of a ...
JSTOR Daily

Mammalian Skeletal Muscle: An Interpretation of the Scanning Electron Microscopic Image

A previously described intermicroscopic (LM → SEM → TEM) correlative technique for muscle was used to aid in the interpretation of the SEM image. Polarization microscopy (POJ) used on cryostat ...
Nature

Sub-Microscopic Localization of Minerals in Skeletal Muscle by Internal 'Micro-Incineration' within the Electron Microscope

RECENT work on contractile phenomena in muscle 1 indicates that a complete understanding of these processes demands a fuller knowledge of the sub-microscopic morphology and distribution of the mineral ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Fossilized Dinos Are Bones Turned to Stone—But Sometimes, Part of the Original Dino Survives

Everyone learns in school that that dinosaur skeletons are bones turned to stone. Mineral-rich water percolated through the earthly remains of the ancient reptiles, transforming their osteology into ...