Crick, along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins, was given the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for "discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".

BBC: Francis Crick and sketch of the DNA structure

By bombarding the fossils with an infrared synchrotron beam a noninvasive way of analyzing a material's internal chemistry the scientists said they detected molecular traces of an organic protein inside the mineralized bones.

WSJ: Dinosaur Embryos Point to Rapid Growth