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To: celmak

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4379577.stm

"This is fossilised bone in the sense that it's from an extinct animal but it doesn't have a lot of the characteristics of what people would call a fossil," she told the BBC's Science In Action programme.

"It still has places where there are no secondary minerals, and it's not any more dense than modern bone; it's bone more than anything."

Dr Schweitzer is not making any grand claims that these soft traces are the degraded remnants of the original material - only that they give that appearance."

""This may not be fossilisation as we know it, of large macrostructures, but fossilisation at a molecular level," commented Dr Matthew Collins, who studies ancient bio-molecules at York University, UK.

"My suspicion is this process has led to the reaction of more resistant molecules with the normal proteins and carbohydrates which make up these cellular structures, and replaced them, so that we have a very tough, resistant, very lipid-rich material - a polymer that would be very difficult to break down and characterise, but which has preserved the structure," he told the BBC."


58 posted on 06/20/2006 8:09:35 PM PDT by 2nsdammit (By definition it's hard to get suicide bombers with experience.)
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To: 2nsdammit; DaveLoneRanger
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No mention of meat or non-meat, could be fossilized meat! And where is the Iodine? LOL!

In truth, you frighten me. I perceive the same behaviors in today's jihadists. Will you be strapping on a belt to blow up "infidels" one of these days?

Sorry wrong scriptures; Petrous don't do suicide, Petrous carry "sword" though (Luke 22:36). You never told me how Algore's movie did, how did you like it?

Be back manana.

59 posted on 06/20/2006 8:33:41 PM PDT by celmak
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""and replaced them, so that we have a very tough, resistant, very lipid-rich material"

Sounds like she's saying it's basically fat.


175 posted on 07/05/2006 10:21:38 AM PDT by webstersII
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