How simple is the explanation that in spite of their best efforts, the sample was contaminated?
um, this is not the only report from the field of non-mineralized “fossils” found.
I recall another case last year, where DNA was extracted from bone.
here’s an interesting chain of events to ponder.
1) Earliest recorded history has tales of “dragons”.
Reptillian creatures of immense size with thick hides and scales that were gradually wiped out by heros. Some Dragons could even fly! Can you believe that?
2) Science proves these Reptillian monsters of large size don’t exist. How could something that large fly? After all, we explored the world, and there are no dragons.
3) 1000 years pass. We find bones of large obviously reptillian creatures
We call them “Dinosaurs”. We find out that some weighing up to a ton or two could actually FLY!
4) We are told that absolutely, under no circumstances could man have ever existed during the time of the dinosaurs.
5) We still have legends, tales, drawings, paintings, and in some cases etchings in caves of dinosaur like animals.
But it’s just circumstance that imagination conjured up a mythical beast that really DID EXIST.
Mere Coincidence?