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To: MetaThought
"The researchers found that what previously had been identified as remnants of blood cells, because of the presence of iron, were actually framboids, microscopic mineral spheres bearing iron."

I mean, the real question is how do iron particles create the blood vessels which were also seen in the samples???

Smithsonian article:

Neatly dressed in blue Capri pants and a sleeveless top, long hair flowing over her bare shoulders, Mary Schweitzer sits at a microscope in a dim lab, her face lit only by a glowing computer screen showing a network of thin, branching vessels. That’s right, blood vessels. From a dinosaur. “Ho-ho-ho, I am excite-e-e-e-d,” she chuckles. “I am, like, really excited.” Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dinosaur.html#ixzz0o95cc6e5

See what I mean about wikipedia? I mean, Jesus could come again and turn all the junk in every junkyard in America into gold for a sign and a the same wiki-weenies who erased the 5000 articles about the midieval climate optimum would be claiming it was a hoax.

74 posted on 05/16/2010 6:27:16 PM PDT by wendy1946
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To: wendy1946
http://newswise.com/articles/view/542898/

The researchers found that what previously had been identified as remnants of blood cells, because of the presence of iron, were actually structures called framboids, microscopic mineral spheres bearing iron. They found similar spheres in a variety of other fossils from various time periods, including an extinct sea creature called an ammonite. In the ammonite they found the spheres in a place where the iron they contain could not have had any relationship to the presence of blood.

"We determined that these structures were too common to be exceptionally preserved tissue. We realized it couldn't be a one-time exceptional preservation," Kaye said.

The scientists also dissolved bone in acid, as had been done previously, and found the same soft tissue structures. They conducted a comparison using infrared mass spectroscopy and determined the structures were more closely related to modern biofilm than modern collagen, extracellular proteins associated with bone. Carbon dating placed the origin at around 1960.

76 posted on 05/16/2010 6:46:27 PM PDT by MetaThought
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