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To: SeekAndFind
(How did Dinosaur soft tissue survive millions of years?)

Simple answer: it didn't. That stuff is a few thousand or a couple of tens of thousands of years old at most.

9 posted on 10/03/2009 8:09:09 PM PDT by wendy1946
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To: wendy1946
Simple answer: it didn't. That stuff is a few thousand or a couple of tens of thousands of years old at most.

Could be. Some think the soft tissue could be from contamination.

17 posted on 10/03/2009 8:57:01 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: wendy1946

There’s no reason why you can’t preserve collagen tissue for millions of years. Place the tissue in an environment that precludes decay from bacteria, then let it dehydrate while encased in material that turns to rock. Move ahead millions of years... break open the rock and rehydrate. The tough part is preventing the decay, but I could imagine this happening under certain scenarios. Such as the tissue drying very quickly after death or the animal being buried within material such as volcanic ash that cuts off oxygen.


21 posted on 10/03/2009 9:36:48 PM PDT by Kirkwood
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