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Traces of Dinosaur DNA May Still Exist in 125 Million-Year-Old Bones, Scientists Say
https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | OCTOBER 7, 2021 | STEPHANIE PAPPAS

Posted on 10/07/2021 8:14:26 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 10/07/2021 8:14:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

So, let’s grab a frog and go to work. I’d like to set a raptor family loose in Congress.


2 posted on 10/07/2021 8:18:33 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Red Badger

Can they actually “reconstruct/ breed” animals from DNA that old?


3 posted on 10/07/2021 8:20:17 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill

Only in Hollywood..........................


4 posted on 10/07/2021 8:20:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Heh.


5 posted on 10/07/2021 8:21:15 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: GingisK

A raptor family loosed in Congress would be a cruel death..............for the a raptor family............................


6 posted on 10/07/2021 8:21:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

That’s because we’ve been lied about how old they really are.
There’s no way in hell those bones are “millions of years old”.

Refer to the Nodosaur specimen they found almost completely intact with cartilage and skin recently found in Canada I believe.

How possible is it for DNA to survive millions of years?


7 posted on 10/07/2021 8:30:52 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: GingisK


8 posted on 10/07/2021 8:32:10 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: GingisK

Unfortunately real velociraptors were about the size of chickens. A couple of allosaurs would be nice though.


9 posted on 10/07/2021 8:36:49 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Red Badger

Raptors would not stand a chance against the fossilized dinosaurs currently serving in congress.


10 posted on 10/07/2021 8:51:11 AM PDT by Paperpusher
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Unfortunately real velociraptors were about the size of chickens.

Wiki:
“Velociraptor was a mid-sized dromaeosaurid, with adults measuring up to 2.07 m (6 ft 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long, 0.5 m (1 ft 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) high at the hip, and weighing up to 15 kg (33 lb), though there is a higher estimate of 19.7 kg (43 + 1 ⁄ 2 lb). The skull, which grew up to 25 cm (10 in) long, was uniquely up-curved, concave on the upper surface and convex on the lower.”

Big Chickens.


11 posted on 10/07/2021 8:51:49 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Red Badger
"Let's see: I could be wrong, but I could also be right."

Me too! I GUESS that about covers it...

12 posted on 10/07/2021 9:12:57 AM PDT by Migraine
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Ok then, find some velociraptor DNA and make us an army of Raptors and let them loose in all the blue cities. Sounds like a plan to me.


13 posted on 10/07/2021 9:14:37 AM PDT by spincaster (i)
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To: Red Badger

And was just discovered in COVID vaxxines, along with a lot of other junk.


14 posted on 10/07/2021 9:28:48 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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Bring back Dire Wolves!


15 posted on 10/07/2021 9:37:37 AM PDT by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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Bring back Dire Straits!................................


16 posted on 10/07/2021 9:38:18 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: carriage_hill

“If there is any DNA or DNA-like molecule in there, it will be – as a scientific guess – very, very chemically modified and altered,”


From the article. If there is any there, it is highly altered.

What is the definition of fossilization?

Fossilization takes place either (i) by the complexation of mineral ions to functional groups in the organic material, gradually replacing the organic structure and, at the same time, trapping the degrading organic molecules in the polymerizing mineral matrix, or (ii) when amorphous minerals formed in the aqueous phase bind to the cell envelope (Konhauser et al., 2003;

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/fossilization


17 posted on 10/07/2021 9:42:51 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

The Maryland “science guy” would take us out on school field trips a couple times a year.

We were marching through one of the limestone block tunnels built for the C&O Canal in the 1830s, when he stopped, shined his flashlight up at the ceiling of the tunnel and dramatically intoned “Look at those stalactites. They took millions of years to form”.

And from the back of the group, my 10 year old self said “Seriously??”


18 posted on 10/07/2021 9:45:03 AM PDT by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: Red Badger

And strait jackets!!


19 posted on 10/07/2021 9:45:51 AM PDT by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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Even “scientists” don’t comprehend what can happen in 1 million years.

The claims are absurd!


20 posted on 10/07/2021 4:08:12 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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