For the past decade I have been traveling the world with my colleague Michael Pittman using a laser system I developed to scan and fluoresce some of the worlds most famous fossils. The laser makes visible residual chemistry from the degrading body that is still  embedded in the matrix around the bones. Often this chemistry takes on the original shape of the soft tissues. With this technique we have made many incredible discoveries such as the round pupil of a pterosaur eye, shoulder muscles used to lift the wings on an ancient bird, the first (and only) dinosaur belly button and feathers on a newly hatched dinosaur embryo that told us it could run around right out of the egg. Our numerous publications can be found on my Google Scholar page here: TK Publications