Here comes his big brother!
Posted on 03/24/2005 12:04:54 PM PST by wallcrawlr
WASHINGTON — For more than a century, the study of dinosaurs has been limited to fossilized bones. Now, researchers have recovered 70-million-year-old soft tissue, including what may be blood vessels and cells, from a Tyrannosaurus rex.
If scientists can isolate proteins from the material, they may be able to learn new details of how dinosaurs lived, said lead researcher Mary Higby Schweitzer of North Carolina State University.
"We're doing a lot of stuff in the lab right now that looks promising,'' she said in a telephone interview. But, she said, she does not know yet if scientists will be able to isolate dinosaur DNA from the materials.
The soft tissues were recovered from the thighbone of a T. rex, known as MOR 1125, that was found in a sandstone formation in Montana. The dinosaur was about 18 years old when it died.
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Doesn't anyone think it is strange that no one thought of this before, cracking a bone open, or even drilling it?
It's not about generations, it's about continuity. It's an accurate time table of the history of the universe.
Where does it say that God made Adam a full grown man?
Where does it imply anything else?
I did check out the names mentioned – they’re legitimate. For the soft tissue to be preserved the animal had to have been killed and buried mighty quick to keep predators away and decomposition from setting in. Perfect ideal conditions that rarely happen. Heck, fossilization itself is mighty rare.
Good one!
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (1997 - N64)
Actually I think I just need to give my head a shake, I meant Easter. Thanks
This is awesome. There are a number of examples of fossilized soft tissue of dinosaurs, including a lovely mummy of a duck-billed dino. However, to my knowledge, except for a false start with a T. Rex bone a few years back, this is the first example of extant unfossilized dinosaur soft tissue. Reading this article gave me chills.
I concur. I cannot imagine even the most perfect preservation and ideal conditions, including the interior of a bone to be protected enough from time to preserve soft tissue.
I'm perplexed. I'd like to believe it. Of course, there are those who will say it's because the T-Rex either never existed or did so 10000 years ago. =/
First there'll be oohs and ahs. Later, there'll be running and screaming ...
LOL I do cocker spaniel rescue and I am NOT about to branch out to do T. Rex rescue. My backyard is fenced, but not to hold those. lol
I'll bet it taste kinda rotten. Like roast beef that's been in the fridge a few years too long.
Who's we?
*snrk* Docile, and eats snails and cheese...
That's the fun part.
70 million, 4 thousand, whatever.
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