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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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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Montana
KEYWORDS: ageoftheearth; creation; crevo; dinosaurs; evolution; fossils; genesis1; lookmaanathiest; paleontology; thewordistruth
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To: Grim
How could anyone look at a picture like this and not believe in God?
To: Sopater
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 extentwhere 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".
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posted on
08/29/2006 9:29:56 AM PDT
by
dynoman
(Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
To: All
Sorry, screwed up the quote;
"To my knowledge, preservation to this extentwhere you still have original flexibility and transparencyhas 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.
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posted on
08/29/2006 9:32:27 AM PDT
by
dynoman
(Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
To: Sopater
"Leonardo" is a fossilized mummy. There are no soft tissues.
A little better description is here.
To: doc30
The thing even had a ticket stub from its recent voyage on Noah's Ark.
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posted on
08/29/2006 9:34:21 AM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(The universe is made for life, therefore ID. Life can't arise naturally, therefore ID.)
To: PatrickHenry
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?
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posted on
08/29/2006 9:39:25 AM PDT
by
Sopater
(Creatio Ex Nihilo)
To: Sopater
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posted on
08/29/2006 9:41:15 AM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(The universe is made for life, therefore ID. Life can't arise naturally, therefore ID.)
To: MineralMan
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.
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posted on
08/29/2006 9:42:37 AM PDT
by
Sopater
(Creatio Ex Nihilo)
To: MineralMan
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.
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posted on
08/29/2006 9:45:33 AM PDT
by
Drawsing
(The fool shows his annoyance at once. The prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 12:16))
To: PatrickHenry
Teach the controversy.
And that is accomplished by simply sticking to, and teaching the facts.
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posted on
08/29/2006 9:46:17 AM PDT
by
Sopater
(Creatio Ex Nihilo)
To: Drawsing
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.
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posted on
08/29/2006 9:50:09 AM PDT
by
Sopater
(Creatio Ex Nihilo)
To: DaveLoneRanger
Fossilized Soft Tissue Ping.
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posted on
08/29/2006 9:53:37 AM PDT
by
Sopater
(Creatio Ex Nihilo)
To: Coyoteman
No matter how many times you explain there are going to be some folks who don't wish to learn.
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posted on
08/29/2006 9:54:14 AM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(Deliberate ignorance is a sad thing to witness.)
To: gcruse
Everything's ossified. No one's getting even a trace of DNA from that critter.
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posted on
08/29/2006 9:59:22 AM PDT
by
Junior
(Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
To: Drawsing
"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.
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posted on
08/29/2006 10:13:38 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(Non-evangelical Atheist)
To: Junior
What about the t rex soft tissue in post 22,23?
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posted on
08/29/2006 10:13:40 AM PDT
by
dynoman
(Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
To: dynoman
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).
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posted on
08/29/2006 10:16:21 AM PDT
by
Junior
(Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
To: Flavius
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).
To: dynoman
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
To: MineralMan
it appears that this fossil is completely fossilizedNo chance of a Jurassic Park, eh?
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