[wendy1946]

In 1991, Schweitzer was trying to study thin slices of bones from a 65-million-year-old T. rex. She was having a hard time getting the slices to stick to a glass slide, so she sought help from a molecular biologist at the university. The biologist, Gayle Callis, happened to take the slides to a veterinary conference, where she set up the ancient samples for others to look at. One of the vets went up to Callis and said, “Do you know you have red blood cells in that bone?” Sure enough, under a microscope, it appeared that the bone was filled with red disks. Later, Schweitzer recalls, “I looked at this and I looked at this and I thought, this can’t be. Red blood cells don’t preserve.” Schweitzer showed the slide to Horner. “When she first found the red-blood-cell-looking structures, I said, Yep, that’s what they look like,” her mentor recalls. He thought it was possible they were red blood cells, but he gave her some advice: “Now see if you can find some evidence to show that that’s not what they are.”

Now, granted some of the materials found were in somewhat degraded states; nonetheless they should not have been found. The theoretical max possible time limit for those kinds of materials surviving is in the thousands or tens of thousands of years, and not in the millions.

[allmendream]

It was certainly thought to be - but the red blood cell looking structures are not blood cells - they are fossilized blood cells without even (so far) any detectable biomolecules - let alone hemoglobin.

To say that it was “meat” or “blood” is a lie.

It may be a lie you are particularly enamored of - but it is a lie.

So why don't we ever find dinosaur BONE? Why is it always made out of fossil mineral and not collagen bone? And we never seem to see human bones fossilized to the same extent?

If dinosaurs existed within the last six or so thousand years - their bones would still be bones - not minerals - and wouldn't we at least ONCE find them in the same strata - if they co-existed? Why do they always seem to be found under the iridium laced ash layer at the K-T boundary?