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PRESERVED T. Rex Soft Tissue RECOVERED (Pic)
Star Tribune ^
| 03.24.05
| Randolph Schmid
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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TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; creation; dinosaur; dna; evolution; godsgravesglyphs; maryschweitzer; paleontotology; trex; tyrannosaurus
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To: cripplecreek
>>Same here. 70 million years is a loooong time. It's not like this bone was frozen in a glacier.<<
I'll go on record as one of the skeptics. Then again, maybe the "young earth" crowd was right. ;^>
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posted on
03/24/2005 12:25:07 PM PST
by
RobRoy
(Child support and maintenence (alimony) are what we used to call indentured slavery)
To: Drew68
If anybody knows any really cool dinosaur computer games where they actually do that, let me know...lol
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posted on
03/24/2005 12:25:42 PM PST
by
rwfromkansas
(http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
To: TomServo
Bang A Gong (Get It On), man!
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posted on
03/24/2005 12:26:16 PM PST
by
newgeezer
(Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
To: TC Rider
>> Found with a Bud can and a skateboard.<<
And the keys to the family station wagon.
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posted on
03/24/2005 12:26:45 PM PST
by
RobRoy
(Child support and maintenence (alimony) are what we used to call indentured slavery)
To: tnlibertarian
Did some lady find it in her chili?
:-) The part about having everyone show their hands to make sure they all had their digits sounded like an urban legend, though.
To: Mustng959
Too late ... already done ...
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posted on
03/24/2005 12:27:28 PM PST
by
knarf
(A place where anyone can learn anything ... especially that which promotes clear thinking.)
To: Michael.SF.
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posted on
03/24/2005 12:27:29 PM PST
by
LauraJean
(sometimes I win sometimes I donate to the equine benevolent society)
To: RobRoy
Not to mention it was wearing a "Stop Global Cooling" t-shirt.
To: newgeezer
LOL! First thing I thought too. Can we clone Marc Bolan?
To: newgeezer
Bang A Gong (Get It On), man! Heh heh...;-)
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posted on
03/24/2005 12:28:57 PM PST
by
TomServo
("Uh, Donner, party of three please.")
To: biblewonk
lol
Look, I don't buy into evolution too much, but 6000 years old?
That is a bit ridiculous.
The Bible describes creation. It does not give the date it started. And, furthermore, there are likely thousands of years of gaps in time that Scripture does not record. After Adam etc., no doubt there are perhaps even millions of years missing at points. It doesn't just go from Adam to Noah in a couple generations.
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posted on
03/24/2005 12:29:19 PM PST
by
rwfromkansas
(http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
To: LauraJean
What if it was a fake idNo one can fake us out. We are scientists.
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posted on
03/24/2005 12:29:36 PM PST
by
newgeezer
(Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
To: biblewonk
Hey...I got a friend who thinks maybe God made 70-million-year-old stuff 6,000 years ago. Like, it was already ancient the day it was made. Thoughts?
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posted on
03/24/2005 12:30:02 PM PST
by
Oberon
(What does it take to make government shrink?)
To: biblewonk
Yep! I was thinking along those lines too.
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03/24/2005 12:30:19 PM PST
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Vor Lady
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posted on
03/24/2005 12:30:39 PM PST
by
PatrickHenry
(<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
To: rwfromkansas; biblewonk
So, the genealogies in Matthew and Luke are wrong or misleading?
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posted on
03/24/2005 12:31:23 PM PST
by
newgeezer
(Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
To: newgeezer
OH come on. The Bible is not intended to cover every aspect of time that ever occurred.
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posted on
03/24/2005 12:32:42 PM PST
by
rwfromkansas
(http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
To: RobRoy; Sender
Have you seen the book, How to Keep Dinosaurs? It is hysterical and addresses all those concerns. I'm sorry I can't remember who wrote it, but is is REALLY FUNNY; written like a how to care for dogs,cats,horses, budgies, etc.
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posted on
03/24/2005 12:33:08 PM PST
by
Vor Lady
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To: mhking
This definitely falls into the "Just Damn" category.
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posted on
03/24/2005 12:33:21 PM PST
by
roaddog727
(The marginal propensity to save is 1 minus the marginal propensity to consume.)
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