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Daddee I once was a slug.
Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 2815 Location: Mesa, AZ
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Posted: 3/24/2005, 12:24 pm Post subject: Dinosaur Soft Tissue |
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This is the freakiest story I've read in a long time. Talk about your Jurrasic Park:
Scientists trying to transport a T-Rex femur bone on a helicopter had to break it in half. When they did they found soft tissue perfectly preserved inside. It was still flexible and resilient and it appears that individual cells may be intact.
They're currently looking to see if DNA survived.
The scientist that made the find has concluded that fossilization obviously doesn't progress as they assumed and is encouraging museums and other large collectors of dinosaur bones to crack open the bones and see if they can find any more samples of soft tissue. _________________ "Only small minds want always to be right."
- Louis XIV
"...haven't you lived long enough to know that two men may honestly differ about a question and both be right?"
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Dirt Dog
Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 171 Location: AJ
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Posted: 3/24/2005, 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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What a mind boggling story, 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex! How is that Possible? This may change the whole way we estimate geologic time at the least and may even lead to a true Jurassic park |
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evenstar
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 5548 Location: SCW by way of CA
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Posted: 3/24/2005, 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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Got DNA? Want clone? WOOHOO! _________________ John Richardson and Richie Rich, El Perro de Playero
http://members.tripod.com/~evenstar/index.html
http://www.arizonahikers.com
When the Man waked up he said, "What is Wild Dog doing here?" And the Woman said, "His name is not Wild Dog anymore, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always. Take him with you when you go hunting."
--Rudyard Kipling, from Just So Stories, 1902 |
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GTG Was lost but now am found
Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 2387 Location: Peoria, Arizona, originally from Rocket City, USA
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Posted: 3/24/2005, 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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The scientist that made the find has concluded that fossilization obviously doesn't progress as they assumed and is encouraging museums and other large collectors of dinosaur bones to crack open the bones and see if they can find any more samples of soft tissue.
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I'll remember this the next time I see Hoomer I'll bet only piss and vinegar spill out though.
GTG _________________ Good things come to those who walk. |
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evenstar
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 5548 Location: SCW by way of CA
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Posted: 3/24/2005, 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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GTG wrote: |
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The scientist that made the find has concluded that fossilization obviously doesn't progress as they assumed and is encouraging museums and other large collectors of dinosaur bones to crack open the bones and see if they can find any more samples of soft tissue.
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I'll remember this the next time I see Hoomer I'll bet only piss and vinegar spill out though.
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Guess where it's gonna be aimed.....and I ain't talkin' 'bout the vinegar! _________________ John Richardson and Richie Rich, El Perro de Playero
http://members.tripod.com/~evenstar/index.html
http://www.arizonahikers.com
When the Man waked up he said, "What is Wild Dog doing here?" And the Woman said, "His name is not Wild Dog anymore, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always. Take him with you when you go hunting."
--Rudyard Kipling, from Just So Stories, 1902 |
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