PRESERVED T. Rex Soft Tissue RECOVERED (Pic)

Star Tribune ^ | 03.24.05 | Randolph Schmid

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WASHINGTON — For more than a century, the study of dinosaurs has been limited to fossilized bones. Now, researchers have recovered 70-million-year-old soft tissue, including what may be blood vessels and cells, from a Tyrannosaurus rex.

If scientists can isolate proteins from the material, they may be able to learn new details of how dinosaurs lived, said lead researcher Mary Higby Schweitzer of North Carolina State University.

"We're doing a lot of stuff in the lab right now that looks promising,'' she said in a telephone interview. But, she said, she does not know yet if scientists will be able to isolate dinosaur DNA from the materials.

The soft tissues were recovered from the thighbone of a T. rex, known as MOR 1125, that was found in a sandstone formation in Montana. The dinosaur was about 18 years old when it died.

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MSU paleontologists (from left) Frankie Jackson, Jim Schmitt and Mary Higby Schweitzer

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[MHGinTN]

Already got um, they're called Abrams Tanks.

[RandallFlagg]

Yeah!
And Anna Nakagawa was there...

[RandallFlagg]

Turok: Evolution.
Xbox and Gamecube. Really nice game for it's time.

[RandallFlagg]

I had to contribute...

[MaineVoter2002]

Let us make man

Imagine that, the Trinity mentioned in the first book.

Actually, I have my doubts about evolution but even if it were proven true, it certainly would not change my faith. If God wanted us to know all, there would be no mysteries today about life, death and the hereafter.

I have an idea that dinosaurs existed somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 years ago maybe longer ago than that but 1 million or 70 million...seems too long ago. It's just my own guess.

[DennisR]

You mean you do not think an infallible scientist can tell that something is 70 million years old and is part of a T. Rex? Shame on you! /s

[SunkenCiv]

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Mary Higby Schweitzer with the cast of a Tyrannosaurus rex. (Photo courtesy of North Carolina State University).

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[SunkenCiv]

Dinosaur Shocker
(YEC say dinosaur soft tissue couldn’t possibly survive millions of years)
Smithsonian Magazine | May 1, 2006 | Helen Fields
Posted on 05/01/2006 11:29:14 AM EDT by SirLinksalot
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1624642/posts

The scrambling continues (Fallout over T-rex bone tissue continues)
Answers in Genesis | March 6, 2006 | Staff
Posted on 03/10/2006 9:25:07 AM EST by DaveLoneRanger
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1593799/posts

Would you Adam 'n' Eve it? (post #24)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1409928/posts?page=24#24

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