[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Credit: From Schweitzer et al., Science 307:1952-1955 (2005). Reprinted with permission from AAAS.

Dinosaur fossils are relatively rare, so scientists don’t like the concept of cutting them apart. However, now that that paleontologists have found soft tissue (above) inside a 70 million year old T. rex bone, more scientists may start to drill into their dino fossils.

[billorites]

[Bringbackthedraft]

Fiction becoming fact? Jurassic Park may actually become real? It don't take much, you know there is always someone out there that is just itching to try it.

[ahayes]

There's a typo in that site's headline, it should read "Science One and a Half Years Ago." ;-)

[NutCrackerBoy]

Bump.

[js1138]

There is no "tissue" in the sense of cells that might have DNA. And this is a year old, or more.

The scientist who found this material is on record as calling the "soft tissue" = "meat" crowd liars and morons.

[Hoplite]

It should be pointed out that the soft tissue wasn't soft when found.

When they dissolved the mineral deposits in the tissues, the authors were left with a flexible, stretchy material threaded with what looked like blood vessels. source

I believe this omission has caused a certain amount of controversy here on FR in the past.

[js1138]

Your pictures include a scale. Take a look at it. Here's your pictures, closer to actual size.

[Coyoteman]

===> Placemarker <===

[Moonman62]

I imagine if they cooked it up, it would taste like chicken.

[Popocatapetl]

More than anything else, this was a wake up call to Paleontologists around the world that their huge stores of dinosaur bones may contain soft tissue treasures unsuspected for generations. Undoubtedly, they are now trying to find some non-invasive process to examine bones without breaking them.

[VadeRetro]

This shiite again!

Mash here.

Then try here.

Only about the tenth 11th time I've seen this on FR.

[toddlintown]

What's it taste like?