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To: sr4402
How is this explained? Is her research suspect?

No... she has published her findings in Science and others have noted that what she has found seems to be valid. However here is an interesting quote from her:

"Tissue preservation to this extent has not been noted before in dinosaurs," the team leader, Dr Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University, said.

She doesn't seem to be an IDwacko at all. The fossil itself was discovered by Jack Horner... Not exactly an unreputable scientist. So the question remains how did soft tissue survive in a Dinosaur? The fact that soft tissue has never been found in such an old fossil suggests that the environment it was fossilized in somehow preserved it.

I have a fossil (I believe it is Pecopteris) from the Pennsylvainian which was about 300 million years ago. Basically it looks like a short leafed fern and what always amazes me is how "green" the leaves still are.

22 posted on 05/01/2006 8:50:46 AM PDT by trashcanbred (Anti-social and anti-socialist)
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To: trashcanbred

I have no real qualification for this, but I am thinking an oxygen free environment, suh as bog water.

One paragraph inculde a comment that all ofthe fossils from that location have a decay type smell. I'd suggest inspecting new digs ASAP for further evidence.


30 posted on 05/01/2006 8:57:01 AM PDT by From many - one.
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