World���s First T. rex Leather Handbag from Soft Tissue?

By the end of the year, you may be able to purchase a one-of-a-kind fashion accessory���a handbag made from ���T. rex leather���! If successful, this ���next-gen material��� will be a lab-grown, leatherlike material made from ���ancient protein sequences.��� How is this possible? Well, it���s only (potentially) possible because T. rex fossils aren���t millions of years old!

You see, in a landmark 2005 study, soft tissue was discovered in a T. rex femur. Since that first popularized discovery, so...