[RaceBannon]

I am sorry, but it has to be said...If any of you are so stupid as to believe that tissue can survive tens of millions of years and remain soft tissue, you are stupid beyond hope.

[DannyTN]

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[AdmSmith]

It is in the bone not the soft tissues. If you check this link tomorrow Friday you may read the abstract http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol316/issue5822/index.dtl

Analyses of Soft Tissue from Tyrannosaurus rex Suggest the Presence of Protein
Mary Higby Schweitzer, Zhiyong Suo, Recep Avci, John M. Asara, Mark A. Allen, Fernando Teran Arce, and John R. Horner
Science 13 April 2007: 277-280.
Mass spectroscopy reveals the protein sequence of collagen preserved in a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil, demonstrating that biochemical data can be obtained from long-extinct species.

[Born to Conserve]

“I am sorry, but it has to be said...If any of you are so stupid as to believe that tissue can survive tens of millions of years and remain soft tissue, you are stupid beyond hope.”

Why not? Carbon-carbon bonds are strong. Some amino acids are very stable, and even of “mineral origin”. Why can’t a polymer of amino-acids survive hermetically sealed inside of rock? What qualifies you to eliminate the possibility that any protein can survive for this long? What qualifies you to call people stupid?

[ASA Vet]

Here we go again ping.