Jurassic purse: Handbag made from ‘T-Rex leather’ on auction in Paris
Meanwhile, vertebrate paleontologist Melanie During of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam told Reuters that any persisting collagen from inside bones couldn’t be used to create skin or leather, and Thomas R. Holtz Jr., a paleontologist at the University of Maryland, said even proteins that matched flawlessly wouldn’t have the larger-scale fibre organization necessary to create the…