Paleontology Shaken: Organic Molecules Found in 66-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Bones

Scitech Daily ^ | February 11, 2025 | University of Liverpool

[frank ballenger]

RE: I had In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida on 8-Track.

——————————————————————————Not that many years ago (4 maybe?) I was at a stoplight behind a Buick Apollo X-car and it had a bumper sticker:

This Is an X-Car
With An 8 Track Player.

Proud-—with good reason.

[Varda]

That’s what I was thinking. Isn’t this a 20 year old story?

[Jan_Sobieski]

Maybe 66 hundred.

Yep! Since the half life of carbon based cells is less than 10K years

[fishtank]

Do you remember when Picard quoted Gilgamesh in “Darmok”?

[Fuzz]

Shaka, when the walls fell.

[Getready]

...and non-life “finds a way” also?

[Getready]

But the hits keep coming....because it is becoming more acceptable to find biomolecules where they were supposed to have decomposed long ago. Not a fluke anymore.