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To: ElectricStrawberry
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.

That is simply wrong. You are lying or read something that's a lie.

It was big news indeed last year when Schweitzer announced she had discovered blood vessels and structures that looked like whole cells inside that T. rex bone—the first observation of its kind. The finding amazed colleagues, who had never imagined that even a trace of still-soft dinosaur tissue could survive. After all, as any textbook will tell you, when an animal dies, soft tissues such as blood vessels, muscle and skin decay and disappear over time, while hard tissues like bone may gradually acquire minerals from the environment and become fossils. Schweitzer, one of the first scientists to use the tools of modern cell biology to study dinosaurs, has upended the conventional wisdom by showing that some rock-hard fossils tens of millions of years old may have remnants of soft tissues hidden away in their interiors. “The reason it hasn’t been discovered before is no right-thinking paleontologist would do what Mary did with her specimens. We don’t go to all this effort to dig this stuff out of the ground to then destroy it in acid,” says dinosaur paleontologist Thomas Holtz Jr., of the University of Maryland. “It’s great science.” The observations could shed new light on how dinosaurs evolved and how their muscles and blood vessels worked. And the new findings might help settle a long-running debate about whether dinosaurs were warmblooded, coldblooded—or both.

Dinosaur Shocker

24 posted on 10/19/2009 3:05:43 PM PDT by lasereye
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To: lasereye
Nice tactic.

"You are simply wrong.....liar.....you're full of shi'ite.....or whoever you listen to is."

Guess you forgot to read AND COMPREHEND what YOU FREAKIN' POSTED.

“The reason it hasn’t been discovered before is no right-thinking paleontologist would do what Mary did with her specimens. We don’t go to all this effort to dig this stuff out of the ground to then destroy it in acid,”

Thanks for making my task easier. They destroyed the samples by soaking it in a weak acid TO DEMINERALIZE the fossilized samples.

MAYBE you should rely on the PRIMARY SOURCE instead of the lyin Brian Thomas MS*.

Cortical and endosteal bone tissues were demineralized, and after 7 days, several fragments of the lining tissue exhibited unusual characteristics not normally observed in fossil bone. Removal of the mineral phase left a flexible vascular tissue that demonstrated great elasticity and resilience upon manipulation.

Hint: DE-MINERALIZED...in 0.5M EDTA, pH 8.0....EDTA is a chelating agent, something that can deal with mineral ions...you know...the stuff that makes up the "mineral" fossilized bones that need to be DE-mineralized.....soaked in EDTA for 7 days.

SOMEONE is lying and that would be Mr. Brian Thomas MS*......DO TELL, dear lyin' Brian MS*.....do tell all about those "soft, squishy tissues" that have been discovered inside fossilized dinosaur bones as your lie claims.

Hell, even the image attached to the article is a lie I'll attribute to the ICR.....as in...THAT is not what was found, ICR.

At no time did they find a bone full of marrow and intact red blood cells.....but whatever....the ICR has their BS to peddle.

37 posted on 10/20/2009 6:08:47 AM PDT by ElectricStrawberry (Didja know that Man walked with vegetarian T. rex within the last 4,351 years?)
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