Dry Aged Bones: Soft Tissue and Cells in Dinosaur Fossils - Harald Binder

Beginning in the 1990s, there have been several reports about preserved bio-macromolecules in Mesozoic dinosaur fossils. Due to experience in the laboratory in handling substances like these, flexible tissue and fragments from bio-macromolecules – millions of years old – are completely unexpected. What is the interpretation of this experimental data and what may it tell us about earth history? Chemist Harald Binder explains.<br />
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Harald Binder is a passionate and inquisitive scientist (chemist). After a three-year period working as a teacher of chemistry and biology at a secondary school, he now works with the Christian organisation Studiengemeinschaft Wort und Wissen doing research and giving lectures. His topics of interest are in molecular paleontology, origins of life, molecular biology, and philosophical questions about the understanding of life. He is married to Elisabeth and they have four grown-up children and (so far) three grandchildren.<br />
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