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Mummified Brachylophosaurus holds secrets millions of years old
Great Falls Tribune
| June 21, 2006
| KIM SKORNOGOSKI
Posted on 08/29/2006 8:29:21 AM PDT by Sopater
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This is a bit old, but I couldn't find any related posts. This looks like some additional claims to preserved Dinosaur "soft tissue".
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posted on
08/29/2006 8:29:23 AM PDT
by
Sopater
To: Sopater
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posted on
08/29/2006 8:37:19 AM PDT
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com)
To: Sopater
It's kind of a badly-written article. While soft tissues are mentioned, it appears that this fossil is completely fossilized. What is rare is that soft tissues were also fossilized, which allows them to be studied. In most fossils, all soft tissues decompose before fossilization.
Having the entire animal fossilized will allow study of the structure of all that soft tissue, a rare thing in fossils. It doesn't mean that the soft tissue has not been mineralized (converted to stone).
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posted on
08/29/2006 8:37:57 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(Non-evangelical Atheist)
To: Sopater
This is a bit old Well, it is a dinosaur after all...
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posted on
08/29/2006 8:38:53 AM PDT
by
Triggerhippie
(Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.)
===> Placemarker <===
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posted on
08/29/2006 8:39:24 AM PDT
by
Coyoteman
(Evolution is real, deal with it!)
To: MineralMan
The evidence goes a long way to justify what many paleontologists are having a hard time believing that Leonardo is as well preserved as Murphy says it is and how, after millions of years, that is even possiblean interesting sentence here...
To: Sopater
Why does the article say that X-rays only damages living
tissue???
It damages tissue period. I.e. messes up DNA, proteins, etc..
In living tissue, the normal function is disrupted, so
the damage is apparent to us. In dead tissue, you gotta
do chemical analysis to see the damage.
I suppose they will have to eventually unearth the thing, to use
things like electron microscopes.
Interesting find...especially is there is still soft tissue.
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posted on
08/29/2006 8:46:45 AM PDT
by
Getready
(Truth and wisdom are more elusive, and valuable, than gold and diamonds)
To: Sopater
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posted on
08/29/2006 8:50:27 AM PDT
by
Grim
To: Sopater
Where's the Helen Thomas picture?
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posted on
08/29/2006 8:51:17 AM PDT
by
Buck W.
(If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
To: Sopater
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posted on
08/29/2006 8:52:18 AM PDT
by
OHelix
To: Sopater
Unlike most Brachylophosauruses, his arms were long enough to touch the ground, but the joints weren't strong enough to support the dinosaur's weight. OK. So maybe our pal used them to pull on branches or something, to bring leaves into reach. Sounds logical enough, right? Apparently not....
Bakker theorizes that the arms may have been used to communicate with a wave or a dance.
Mmmmmmmkay. Sorta like a scaly cheerleader?
Or perhaps its fingers were sensitive enough to pick up sound waves from the ground, allowing the creatures to communicate with others miles away by stomping.
Definitely a scaly cheerleader.
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posted on
08/29/2006 8:53:42 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: Sopater
Can't wait to read about what the x-rays tell them.
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posted on
08/29/2006 8:59:05 AM PDT
by
Dustbunny
(The BIBLE - Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)
To: Sopater
They keep finding animals and dinosaurs that they say are "millions" of years old that still have "soft tissue".? This to me would seem to indicate that these animals and reptiles are not as old as these so-called scientists indicate. In the book of Job in the Bible, Job goes out and looks at 2 dinosaurs (Behemouth and Leviathan) and thinks about them. This book is considered to be about 4000 years old. Besides, I have proof that Dinosaurs still exist!
To: Sopater
Very cool, thanks for the post...
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posted on
08/29/2006 9:04:27 AM PDT
by
Chinito
(6990th Security Group, RC-135/Combat Apple, SEA Class of '68)
To: Sopater
Bakker theorizes that the arms may have been used to communicate with a wave or a dance. Or perhaps its fingers were sensitive enough to pick up sound waves from the ground, allowing the creatures to communicate with others miles away by stomping.
ridiculous, its obvious it use it to type on a keyboard
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posted on
08/29/2006 9:04:58 AM PDT
by
Flavius
(Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: Sopater
My guess is that theres a partially eaten Creationist as part of its stomach contents.
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posted on
08/29/2006 9:06:00 AM PDT
by
DoctorMichael
(A wall first. A wall now.)
To: Sopater
"You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy"
Bill Clinton
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posted on
08/29/2006 9:07:09 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(What Darwin denied he now regrets)
To: Sopater
What secrets?
Who killed JFK..............................?
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posted on
08/29/2006 9:15:22 AM PDT
by
Fighting Irish
(Béagán agus a rá go maith)
To: MineralMan
Thank you for that clarification. It was not very well written.
susie
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posted on
08/29/2006 9:19:01 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: PatrickHenry
ping - cool dino article!
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posted on
08/29/2006 9:24:58 AM PDT
by
doc30
(Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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