PRESERVED T. Rex Soft Tissue RECOVERED (Pic)

Star Tribune ^ | 03.24.05 | Randolph Schmid

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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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[Mustng959]

Course they could come in handy in cleaning out "insurgent" strongholds.

[bmwcyle]

LOL

[mainepatsfan]

Ah they grow up so fast!

[Finger Monkey]

Ping. This is so cool!

[evets]

[null and void]

I'll just complete its DNA with frog DNA, that'll make sure it's docile.

*snrk* Docile, and eats snails and cheese...

[NormsRevenge]

Tastes like Chicken, I bet.

[biblewonk]

Kinda hard to take 70 million years seriesly when we know the universe is 6000 years old.

[mainepatsfan]

The PETA crowd would flip out over the military using an endangered animal in combat.

[rwfromkansas]

hot dang this is cool.

[rwfromkansas]

liking canadian bacon is a break-up offense.

[cripplecreek]

"Soft Tissue" Have they tried viagra?

[RobRoy]

>>I want a T rex! I'll only keep it while it's a puppy.<<

Yes, but what with iresponsible owners, they'll end up breeding in the sewers. :)

[js1138]

ping

[TomServo]

[GOP_1900AD]

Jurassic Park?

[TC Rider]

18 ??

What, did he have his ID with him?

Found with a Bud can and a skateboard.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Or, sleeping just outside of Tokyo Bay.

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