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so you really believe there should be viable soft tissue with collagen and red blood cells with liquid components after room temp for 90 million years?

Believe? No. Yet there it is.

I'd really like to know why and how! There are hundreds of different dating methods that cross check with pretty good accuracy and precision (accuracy and precision are NOT the same thing!)

Decay and fossilization processes are pretty well understood.

Yet there's recognizable collagen in a dino bone.

This should be impossible, yet there it is.

The other thing I find fascinating is that the self-same True Believers who search all of recorded history for rare instances of hoaxes and deliberate mis-dating, so they can hold them up as "typical" scientific fraud, don't utter a peep when a scientist (FEMALE no less) honestly reports her findings that clearly have to be totally wrong, a hoax, a mistake or flat out fraud on someone's part.

She opened the self up to loss of career, reputation and to centuries of ridicule, rather than ignore results that don't fit the scientific canon.

How many of us are that brave and intellectually honest?

I believe you were referring to this article...

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/10021606.html

excerpt:
“Mary Schweitzer sits at a microscope in a dim lab, her face lit only by a glowing computer screen showing a network of thin, branching vessels. That’s right, blood vessels. From a dinosaur. “Ho-ho-ho, I am excite-e-e-e-d,” she chuckles. “I am, like, really excited.”

After 68 million years in the ground, a Tyrannosaurus rex found in Montana was dug up, its leg bone was broken in pieces, and fragments were dissolved in acid in Schweitzer’s laboratory at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. “Cool beans,” she says, looking at the image on the screen.

It was big news indeed last year when Schweitzer announced she had discovered blood vessels and structures that looked like whole cells inside that T. rex bone—the first observation of its kind. The finding amazed colleagues, who had never imagined that even a trace of still-soft dinosaur tissue could survive. After all, as any textbook will tell you, when an animal dies, soft tissues such as blood vessels, muscle and skin decay and disappear over time, while hard tissues like bone may gradually acquire minerals from the environment and become fossils.”