Posted on 10/19/2009 1:40:13 PM PDT by lasereye
It’s an interesting quandary, to say the least.
Wouldn’t you love to see some of those finds cloned.
Wow...
Perhaps the material has decayed or morphed beyond useful dna or rna being available. If so, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa from here.
So....
Does this mean medieval knights really did slay dragons?
Whoever wrote that has never been to the Grand Canyon.
What are you referring to?
Mmmm.....
>Does this mean medieval knights really did slay dragons?
Maybe they did.
The statement I quoted.
This stuff is very exciting.
Something tells me someone didn’t check to see what “soft tissue” preserved inside dinosaur bone fossils actually entailed, and is therefore assuming someone found large chunks of marrow or something. Yes, soft tissue indications were found, mainly collagens, and were encased in rock themselves.
oh goody. And merlin and excaliber?
>oh goody. And merlin and excaliber?
Stargate SG-1 explains them.
;)
Ya know, I’ve given that some thought on a number of occassions. Science tells us that the dinosaurs were long gone when humans made the scene. You hafta ask; what was the origins of all of the legends concerning “dragons?”
It also strikes me as an incredible leap to suggest that just because our current understanding of the decay of collagens in a fossilization environment can’t explain the presence of those collagens, therefore the whole thing is wrong and the dinosaurs lived only thousands of years ago (and somehow almost all of their bodies mineralized so quickly except this one tissue; and yes we have found fossilized skin). Occam’s razor would suggest that we probably just don’t know enough about collagen preservation yet.
>You hafta ask; what was the origins of all of the legends concerning “dragons?”
Indeed; and it was long thought that the giant squid was only a myth thought-up by sailors.
Repeating the same lies over and over and over....does not make the ad nauseum correct.
There has been exactly ZERO “soft, squishy tissues” found in dinosaur bones, Dr....er....Brian Thomas MS*....and if Brian Thomas MS* knew WTF he was talking about, he’d stop lying about it.....but the truth isn’t what B rian Thomas MS* is interested in.
What HAS been found in fossilized dinosaur bones is FOSSILIZED “soft tisssue structures” that are then de-mineralized.
....but Brian Thomas MS* doesn’t want you to really know that part....all he wants is for you to thinnk that there’s soft-squishy tissue found and then you too will believe that Man walked the Earth at the same time as 100+ large meat eating dinosaurs that all somehow dies 4,351 years ago because they somehow missed their seat on the Ark.
Next article to post would be the “dinosaur skin” that was found. (corrected to the truth....fossilized dinosaur skin structure)
Maybe. But there’s also the possibility that the fossilization happens quicker than is normally thought (you mentioned fossilized skins); if that is the case then the underlying [soft]tissues may also be effectively sealed and thusly more preserved than thought. (Like, if you will, forming a can around the food.)
The biggest “patch” of fossilized skin was about 1’ square. It’s a lot more likely that this “soft” tissue, which is only found in very small amounts, requiring a microscope to see, is preserved by an accident of the way the minerals accumulate during the fossilization process i.e. an airless environment deep inside a thick mineralized bone.
>and then you too will believe that Man walked the Earth at the same time as 100+ large meat eating dinosaurs that all somehow dies 4,351 years ago because they somehow missed their seat on the Ark.
Who said anything about them missing their seat on the ark? They could have gone extinct before then, they could have been brought on-board as [fertilized] eggs, or they could have been hatchlings when they boarded. In all those cases, we would expect that all of the dinosaurs that were not on the ark were dead at that point.
>i.e. an airless environment deep inside a thick mineralized bone.
And how is that NOT my analogy of the fossilization forming around the tissue in question and preserving it like canned food?
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