“The fossilized leg of an 80-million-year-old duck-billed dinosaur has yielded the oldest known proteins preserved in soft tissue—including blood vessels and other connective tissue as well as perhaps blood cell proteins—a new study says.”
Only a fool would still believe that proteins would remain intact after 80 million years. I used to believe that the universe was billions of years old but the Schweitzer discovery made me reevaluate everything. It wasn’t the only thing but it was the primary catalyst.
I checked your reference and remember having the same reaction myself when I read it some three years ago.
It is just incomprehensible that undecomposed red blood cells could exist after 65+ million years.