Cutting or core biopsy needles provide specimens that preserve the tissue architecture enabling histological analysis.
The attitude of thylacocephalan raptorial appendages reconstructed here is supported by several specimens that preserve them directed posteriorly.
Apart from frozen remains, the only soft tissue known is from a specimen that was preserved in a petroleum seep in Starunia, Poland.
Distally, appendage VI is only known from a single specimen (FMNH PE 61156) that preserves the two distal podomeres of a swimming paddle.
Like the iconic mosquito trapped in amber atop John Hammond's cane in Jurassic Park, scientists have uncovered an exquisitely preserved specimen that is shedding light on the state of our planet 40 million years ago.
Among the new specimens is a skull that preserves quadritubercular dentition (4 major cusps, found in herbivores and omnivores [6], [7]) and a pachyostotic auditory bulla (found in mammals derived for underwater hearing [8]).
The plant specimens that were preserved as herbarium specimens were identified using the standard reference for this purpose [42], compared with specimens from the Department of Plant Resources, and identified with the help of taxonomists from the Department of Plant Phytotechny at the USAMVB Timisoara.
Skin specimens that were preserved in the NSS without the pressurization were used as a control.
The exhibition, "Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies," at the California Science Center until Jan . 23 next year was first seen in Japan in 1995, and has since been to Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Britain, Taiwan and Germany, native land of Dr. Gunther von Hagens, the inventor of the process that preserves the specimens.
The one specimen that came close to being preserved is now just a mummified head and a tattered foot.
