Mummified Brachylophosaurus holds secrets millions of years old

Great Falls Tribune | June 21, 2006 | KIM SKORNOGOSKI

[Sopater]

Link only to "Great Falls Tribune"

[2ndClassCitizen]

How could anyone look at a picture like this and not believe in God?

[dynoman]

How about this article from National Geographic;

T. Rex Soft Tissue Found Preserved

Here is a quote from the article;

""To my knowledge, preservation to this extent—where you still have —has not been noted in dinosaurs before, so we're pretty excited by the find," said Mary H. Schweitzer, a paleontologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh."

It certainly doesn't sound like this tissue was "mineralized".

[dynoman]

Sorry, screwed up the quote;

"To my knowledge, preservation to this extent—where you still have original flexibility and transparency—has not been noted in dinosaurs before, so we're pretty excited by the find," said Mary H. Schweitzer, a paleontologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

"Leonardo" is a fossilized mummy. There are no soft tissues.

A little better description is here.

[PatrickHenry]

The thing even had a ticket stub from its recent voyage on Noah's Ark.

[Sopater]

The thing even had a ticket stub from its recent voyage on Noah's Ark.

If so, then why was he buried in the flood?

[PatrickHenry]

Teach the controversy.

[Sopater]

While soft tissues are mentioned, it appears that this fossil is completely fossilized.

What this indicates is that the process of fossilization was either much more accelerated than what is typically assumed in this instance (and similar others), or that the decay process was somehow inhibited or greatly impeded for the soft-tissue to mineralize before being completely decayed.

[Drawsing]

Tuesday morning the scientists looked at the keratin forming Leonardo's beak, which, like cartilage, is usually dissolved in time.

It is poorly written, but the above sentence seems to indicate they are studying the original un-fossilized beak material.

[Sopater]

Teach the controversy.

And that is accomplished by simply sticking to, and teaching the facts.

[Sopater]

It is poorly written, but the above sentence seems to indicate they are studying the original un-fossilized beak material.

Agreed. I think that what the scientists are most surprised by is the fact that the keratin forming the beak was able to survive long enough to become mineralized. They aren't actually looking at the keratin, they're looking at mineralized keratin.

[Sopater]

Fossilized Soft Tissue Ping.

[ASA Vet]

No matter how many times you explain there are going to be some folks who don't wish to learn.

[Junior]

Everything's ossified. No one's getting even a trace of DNA from that critter.

[MineralMan]

"It is poorly written, but the above sentence seems to indicate they are studying the original un-fossilized beak material.
"

Based on the rest of the article, I'm betting that the writer simply did not undestand what he was writing about. I think I'll wait to see some real papers on this.

[dynoman]

What about the t rex soft tissue in post 22,23?

[Junior]

What about it? We were talking about this mummified duckbill. The mummified soft tissue on this critter has ossified; a similar dinosaur mummy was on display at the Smithsonian a few years back (it might still be, I haven't been there in 15 years).

[Nathan Zachary]

Maybe it was a construction worker, a flagasaur, and worked at Slate rock and gravel. There were lots of intelligent prehistoric animals well doccumented on the Flinstone movies, which were recovered from a cave and thought to be millions of years old....

"Make no mistake about it: if any one of you thinks of himself as wise...then he must learn to be a fool before he can be wise. Why? Because the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God." (1 Cor.3:18).

[Nathan Zachary]

There is no t rex soft tissue. It's fossilized. Think about it. Soft tissue somehow "preserved" for millions of years just laying out in the elements? Then again, some people will believe anything.

The only soft tissue found was frozen elephants, and Rhino's, wolves fox, rabbits which were flash frozen about 4000 years ago when the arctic was a warm tropical place one moment, then frozen an instant later, with food still in their mouths.

Read about them here. Frozen Mammoths

[colorado tanker]

it appears that this fossil is completely fossilized

No chance of a Jurassic Park, eh?