Your next jacket could be made from a DINOSAUR: Scientists are using fossilised collagen to create the world's first T.Rex leather

Daily Mail ^

[nuke_road_warrior]

My nylon windbreaker is already made from dinosaurs, just not sure which variety.

[monkeyshine]

Excellent

[N. Theknow]

A T.REX jockstrap would be neat.
Codzilla

[BFW]

I see a bad SciFi made for TV / Cable movie

[bk1000]

Collagen and blood proteins from a fifty million year old fossil.

Right.

Still, a T-Rex leather jacket would be way cool.
Actually just a tease. If they can do the skin, a real and complete T-Rex is just around the corner.

[BipolarBob]

It was a night like this forty million years ago
I lit a cigarette, picked up a monkey skull to go
The sun was spitting fire, the sky was blue as ice
I felt a little tired, so I watched Miami Vice
wearing my suit made from a dinosaur

I met you in a cave, you were painting buffalo
I said I'd be your slave, follow wherever you go
That night we split a rattlesnake and danced beneath the stars
You fell asleep, I stayed awake and watched the passing cars
wearing my suit made from a dinosaur

[BenLurkin]

Nice!

[null and void]

Who needs TV when you have T Rex?

[null and void]

*GROAN*

(The better the pun, the bigger the groan...)

[sit-rep]

Cadillac Yo!!...

[fso301]

It builds on previous research which involved extracting a fragment of collagen from a T.Rex fossil, found in 1988 in Montana. It was one of the most complete specimens at the time of its discovery, and even contained preserved blood proteins.

After 40 million years?

[GingisK]

My niece walked like a Velociraptor for several years.

[cableguymn]

They were so busy doing it no one stopped and asked if they should.

[Billthedrill]

Who the heck is gonna want a jacket with little bitty short sleeves?

[CarolinaPeach]

Finally! The question that really matters. I was giving up hope.

Peach

[Manic_Episode]

[mass55th]

I had a coffee cup with that Larson cartoon on it with the caption: “Real reason dinosaurs went extinct.”

[EnderWiggin1970]

It’s fascinating that complex molecules in dinosaur and other fossil remains have been able to survive near their theoretical limit over thousands of years. The contra-scientific belief that such proteins have survived for millions of years without serious cryogenic freezing for the duration is basically a belief in magic.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

[nopardons]

Not bloody likely; I won’t wear such a thing.