Remnants of Ancient LifeThe revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct life. We used to think of fossils as being composed of nothing but rock and minerals, all molecular traces of life having vanished long ago. We were wrong. Remnants of Ancient Life reveals how the new science of ancient biomoleculespigments, proteins, and DNA that once functioned in living organisms tens of millions of years agois opening a new window onto the evolution of