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 properties of animal leather.