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But what's most remarkable about this specimen is that the feathers contain traces of their original colours, which means that we can reconstruct the coloration of this extinct lineage of early birds.

Michael Benton, a professor of vertebrate palaeontology at the University of Bristol, said that although fossils were bought and sold all the time, "the risk with some heavily hyped sales, such as this sale of the nanotyrannus specimen, is that a private purchaser might wish to keep the specimen for their own use.

A key feature of the specimen is that it has tiny feet, human-sized, in a specimen that is about 50 feet long.

The significance of the specimen is that it is the only complete specimen of this species of whale and provides evidence of how whales evolved from being land-based animals that went back to the sea.

"The most amazing thing about this specimen is that its apparel is still intact," said Dr. Abuzz.

Thus one explanation for the well-preserved tissues in our specimen is that extraordinary circumstances, bacterial growth and soil content of heavy metals conspired to preserve the tissues.

The methodology used for RNA extraction from tissue specimens was that previously described for RNA extraction from cell culture.

Another feature in gliotic brain specimens was that FABP7 was weakly positive in the cytoplasm of some neurons (data not shown).

But what is even more striking about the specimens is that while both juvenile and adult specimens showed evidence of all-over coverage of short, down-like feathers, only an adult specimen had what is known as a pennibrachium - a structure with the form of a wing and covered in much longer feathers.

The reason why high-density FGLNAs were not observed on these high initial stress specimens is that the relatively low surface roughness may lack enough surface area to further enhance the growth of FGLNAs on the specimens.

But perhaps the most distinguished of the specimens is that of Broca, a 19th-century physician and anthropologist who was the father of modern brain surgery.