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Scientists just found soft tissue inside a dinosaur fossil. Here's why that's exciting.
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| June 9, 2015
| Joseph Stromberg
Posted on 06/09/2015 12:22:24 PM PDT by ETL
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:22:24 PM PDT
by
ETL
To: ETL; fishtank
The idea that dinosaur fossils might harbor soft tissue first surfaced about a decade ago, when paleontologist Mary Schweitzer found evidence of blood cells preserved inside T. rex fossils. But what's so exciting about this new study is that the fossils used, unlike Schweitzer's, aren't particularly well-preserved. Susannah Maidment, one of the paleontologists who worked on the paper, called them "crap" specimens. If they have preserved soft tissue inside them, it could be a sign that thousands of other fossils in museum collections do too. It could also be a sign that they're not as old as previously believed.
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:24:40 PM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: ETL
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:24:46 PM PDT
by
C19fan
To: ETL
"Scientists just found soft tissue tiny structures that look a lot like collagen fibers inside a dinosaur fossil."
To: Alex Murphy
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:26:42 PM PDT
by
3boysdad
(The very elect.)
To: ETL
Yet inside B.O’s head there is NONE!!!!!
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:27:09 PM PDT
by
Paul46360
To: Alex Murphy
It could also be a sign that they're not as old as previously believed.
One of my first thoughts, as well. It will be interesting to see this develop...
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:27:17 PM PDT
by
Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:28:11 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: ETL
When does the dino park open????
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:30:00 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Alex Murphy
It could also be a sign that they’re not as old as previously believed.
Yup.
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:30:30 PM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: Alex Murphy
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With all the discussion of “dragons” embedded in every culture, obviously they were alive 600-800 years ago in Europe and Asia where those writings originated.
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:31:05 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: 3boysdad
Grandpa! Can they clone you???
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:31:47 PM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
To: Alex Murphy
Isn’t it interesting that the pseudo scientists who made the discovery are attempting to get the news out, while fatidiously skating around any mention that these discoveries knock their whole “billions and billions” lash-up into a cocked hat?!
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:34:40 PM PDT
by
Tucker39
(Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
To: ETL
![](http://donglutsdinosaurs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Tyrannosaurid-finger1.jpg )
Cast of a pedal phalanx and ungual (foot digit and claw) of a tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur, probably Gorgosaurus libratus, from Mid-Land Scientific Service of Canada. The original specimen was collected from the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation of Red Deer River Valley, Alberta, Canada.
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:35:01 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: editor-surveyor
“With all the discussion of dragons embedded in every culture, obviously they were alive 600-800 years ago in Europe and Asia where those writings originated.”
With all the discussions of witches embedded in every culture, obviously the were alive 300-400 years ago in North America.
To: JoeProBono
my tissues aren’t soft now.
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:36:06 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: C19fan
Sure. We can clone dinosaurs, or we could clone Ann-Margret. So, naturally, guess which one of the two the science geeks will clone...
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:36:16 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: ETL
emu (a bird thought to be a relatively close relative to dinosaurs). Relatively speaking, of course...............
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:37:21 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: JoeProBono
Thanks. A very interesting and exciting specimen! What’s that she’s holding?
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:38:00 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: 2banana
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:39:05 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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