I wish Dr. Poinar would stick to mosquitos and other blood-sucking insects, so we can get our hands on some dino-DNA and commence the cloning of T-rexes already. Why is it so hard for the nerd to understand and give the people what they want???
Posted on 10/30/2006 8:19:35 AM PST by presidio9
I wish there was a photo.
I wish Dr. Poinar would stick to mosquitos and other blood-sucking insects, so we can get our hands on some dino-DNA and commence the cloning of T-rexes already. Why is it so hard for the nerd to understand and give the people what they want???
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Now that's pretty cool looking.
Never unserstood this part...how does tree sap (from an organic process) become a stone?
Creating quite a "buzz" in the scientific community.
Coal is also from an organic process, as is limestone.
A bee-dance pattern found in the amber was decyphered to read "You damn kids stay off of my lawn!"
I don't see any diverse license! So who knows how old this bug could bee!
I would really like to know how these scientists determine how something is a million years old.
What is the difference between determining if the bee is a million years old or a half a million? what about a million and a half? what bee criteria do they use?
Beecuz he does have a license.
It's a class Bee.
Simple.
If it remembers Helen Thomas as a child, it is a million years old.
Your stinging puns are beeginning to give me hives.
Haha..Now I understand the formula!...
It dries out and hardens. This keeps happening until what is left after the volatiles are gone is rock hard. Over 50 million years even the heavy volatiles evaporate. Also, there could be a setting up reaction like happens in concrete, polymer chains lengthen over time.
Vroom! Vroom!
"...the ancient bee may help explain the rapid expansion and diversity of flowering plants during that time..."
All in all, this "discovery" doesn't give me the excitement it does these scientist, but the above statement did bring to mind an interesting mental picture. Gives new meaning to "busy bee."
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