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To: editor-surveyor
I did.

“by showing that some rock-hard fossils tens of millions of years old may have remnants of soft tissues hidden away in their interiors.”

Fossils. Rock hard, like a rock. Not bone hard. Like your head.

Nothing to support your lie of it being 100% bone.

And exposure of the exterior of a T-rex BONE would not melt or evaporate the collagen inside. The thing is 30% collagen, 60% dry weight. Collagen is one of the most stable and resistant proteins around, thus its use as structural support in muscle and skeleton. It isn't going anywhere, except via a fossilization process. That even enough fragments to bind to an antibody raised against ostrich collagen survived the fossilization is AMAZING, a discovery that shocked the paleontology world.

The discovery of an actual BONE T-rex skeleton would be the amazing find of the century, and nobody would be surprised if you got a collagen antibody reaction to it; bone is 30% collagen. The intent would be to isolate the collagen and sequence it.

But OF COURSE you misrepresent reality.

You think the Sun goes around the Earth!

106 posted on 08/10/2010 7:09:04 PM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: allmendream

You didn’t read the article.


107 posted on 08/10/2010 7:32:13 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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