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[Alex Murphy]

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.

[C19fan]

Clone them!

[TexasGator]

"Scientists just found soft tissue tiny structures that look a lot like collagen fibers inside a dinosaur fossil."

[Paul46360]

Yet inside B.O’s head there is NONE!!!!!

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Ping.

[2banana]

When does the dino park open????

[JoeProBono]

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.

[Red Badger]

emu (a bird thought to be a relatively close relative to dinosaurs).

Relatively speaking, of course...............

[bgill]

Just in time to cash in with the new Jurassic movie.

[TexasGator]

“The photo above, from a new study published today in Nature Communications and led by Sergio Bertazzo of Imperial College London, shows an extremely zoomed-in view of a 75-million-year-old theropod claw, “

No. That is the Emu blood.

[cincinnati65]

And just in time for Jurassic World coming out......

[Born to Conserve]

...Bduh, bduh, um, bduh, 6,000 years, bduh, bduh...

[G Larry]

Perhaps they’ll recognize that neither the 80 million year estimate, nor the 6,000 year assertion tell the story.

[BuffaloJack]

I read about the process more than ten years ago.
It is a lot like the way they make gelatin.
The soak everything in acid until the bones, ligaments, hair and nails are gone, then they neutralize what’s left to remove the acid and then wash what’s left. This process separates the collagen and other soft tissues from the hard stuff.
I suppose you could take it one step further and grind it into a fine powder and call it dinosaur gelatin.

[Cementjungle]

the researchers found features that resemble red blood cells

Totally unexpected. I always assumed they had hydraulic fluid in them.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

That first picture looks more like a salad bar...

[dfwgator]

“Life finds a way.”

[Tramonto]

The devil must of put the soft tissue in the fossils to test the science community’s commitment to Darwin.

[FBD]

Paleontologists Detect Mineralized Soft Tissue in Cretaceous Dinosaur Bones

http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/science-soft-tissue-dinosaur-bones-02893.html