Scientists just found soft tissue inside a dinosaur fossil. Here's why that's exciting.

Vox.com ^ | June 9, 2015 | Joseph Stromberg

[huldah1776]

love Occam’s razor. It is much easier to believe they existed than not. Loved the movie “DragonHeart,” too.

[publius911]

How very odd...
She doesn't look a day over 200,000 years!

[Natufian]

If dragons or dinosaurs existed alongside humans, why dont we find their remains alongside human remains?

[huldah1776]

maybe they ate all the neanderthals.

[BroJoeK]

schaef21: "The current scientific paradigm would say that no soft tissue or red blood cells (or stretchy ligament that still snaps back into place like Mary Schweitzer found) would last anywhere near 65 million years and therefore would not be found in the specimen..... but it was and continues to be, so they have to come up with something."

First, there is no "current scientific paradigm" which prevents some well protected organic material from lasting indefinitely.
Second, it's still not 100% certain just exactly what that material is -- 65 myo dino remains or something growing there more recently.

Schaef21: "It seems to me that the most logical explanation (and simplest....Occam’s Razor) is that it is not that old....."

Hardly, because we well know what "not that old" looks like.
Over the years dozens & dozens of frozen Mammoth carcasses have been found, along with other Pleistocene megafauna, dated by radiometric methods from 10,000 to 50,000 years old.
Some even have recoverable DNA, giving people (so far) wild ideas about "resurrecting" those beasts.

That's what "not that old" really looks like.
By stark contrast, these alleged "dino soft tissues" are greatly degraded, to the point where it's still not certain exactly what's there.

Further, unlike "not that old" mammoths, dinosaur fossils are all found in geological strata always dated to Cretacious times or before.

Bottom line: it's too soon to say for certain, but the scientific probability of that "dino soft tissue" being "not that old" is near zero. Indeed, if it did somehow turn out to be "not that old", then Occam's Razor says it would have to come from some other type critter, living in dino remains.

[FBD]

Paleontologists Detect Mineralized Soft Tissue in Cretaceous Dinosaur Bones

http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/science-soft-tissue-dinosaur-bones-02893.html

[MaxMax]

With todays gravity they would collapse and die of starvation/dehydration.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

That’s because dinosaur fossils exist all around the world and humans have been picking them up forever.