"These sands are mineralized, " says Andrew Denton, general manager of mining at RBM.

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By bombarding the fossils with an infrared synchrotron beam a noninvasive way of analyzing a material's internal chemistry the scientists said they detected molecular traces of an organic protein inside the mineralized bones.

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