Posted on 03/03/2020 4:45:05 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Palaeontologists have announced the discovery of organic material in 75-million year old dinosaur fossils. The team claims to have found evidence of cartilage cells, proteins, chromosomes and even DNA preserved inside the fossils, suggesting these can survive for far longer than we thought.
The researchers, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and North Carolina State University, made the discovery in skull fragments of Hypacrosaurus, a duck-billed herbivore from the Cretaceous period. These particular specimens were “nestlings”, meaning that at time of death they weren’t yet old enough to leave the nest.
Inside the skull fragments, the team spotted evidence of extremely well-preserved cartilage cells. Two of them were still linked in a way that resembles the final stages of cell division, while another contained structures that look like chromosomes.
The next step was to check whether any original molecules or proteins could still be preserved, and to do so the team conducted two detailed analyses on other skulls from the same nesting ground, and compared the results to samples from young emu skulls that are (obviously) much more recent.
The first was an immunological test, which involves applying a substance that will react if it detects antibodies from a particular cell type. In this case, the test reacted to antibodies of Collagen II, a protein commonly found in the cartilage of animals. This, the team says, suggests that remnants of the original proteins are still present.
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“...suggesting these can survive for far longer than we thought. “
Yeah, right!
“...the discovery of organic material in 75-million year old dinosaur fossils.”
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They were going to use the material to create a living dinosaur and set up a big park but there was a strange new virus that escaped from the lab and starting spreading as soon as the Chinese researchers got off the plane in Wuhan.
*ping*
Paging Michael Crichton . . .
When will they have the guts to admit that DNA DOES NOT SURVIVE FOR 75 MILLION YEARS????
What could POSSIBLY go wrong.
Recycled garbage. Saw this story a decade ago. Lol.
Maybe this is timed for some early release Jurassic Park 27 or something
That’s because the dinosaur died only 6,000 years ago.
Always starts out the same with oohs and aahs and then comes the running and the screaming
I actually saw the tyrannosaur knuckle with the pink structure inside at the Museum of the Rockies. Said they were towels in there no, the material was never mineralized more like vacuum sealed like survivalist food
It could also mean its a lot younger than they think.
To God a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day.
Lol.. just trying to preserve dna for testing for a prolonged period is tough... b7t a few million years. Um okay, mr scientist.
In this case it doesn’t matter what it seems like to God, it matters what it is to us.
The chinese have committed fraud in this area of “science” on multiple occasions. I’ll wait until a civilized nation verifies.
So we can get lab-grown Brontosaurus steaks?
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