6000 Year Old Dinasour Soft Tissue Found!

by SixofNine 9 Replies latest jw friends

  • SixofNine
    SixofNine

    The text says it's 70 million years old, but I'm sure that's just a typo. It's interesting otherwise though.

    http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/03/24/rex.tissue.a...

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    WASHINGTON (AP) -- For more than a century, the study of dinosaurs has been limited to fossilized bones. Now, researchers have recovered 70-million-year-old soft tissue, including what may be blood vessels and cells, from a Tyrannosaurus rex.

    If scientists can isolate proteins from the material, they may be able to learn new details of how dinosaurs lived, said lead researcher Mary Higby Schweitzer of North Carolina State University.

    The soft tissues were recovered from the thighbone of a T. rex, known as MOR 1125, that was found in a sandstone formation in Montana. The dinosaur was about 18 years old when it died.

    The research was funded by North Carolina State University and grants from N. Myhrvold and the National Science Foundation.

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  • Spook
    Spook

    Riiiiiiiight. I saw this on BBC earlier today. YEC will be masturbating to this for weeks until the analysis comes out.

  • Flash
    Flash

    Can anyone say "Jurassic Park?"

  • candidlynuts
    candidlynuts

    i hope they dont clone it using an EMU!

  • New Worldly Translation
    New Worldly Translation

    ROOOAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • cruzanheart
    cruzanheart

    How exciting!!!!

    Nina

  • Satanus
    Satanus

    So, when do we get some trex steaks? I bet it would not tast like chicken.

    S

  • candidlynuts
    candidlynuts

    NWT THAT IS HILARIOUS! LMAO!

  • Elsewhere
    Elsewhere

    *** Pulls String ***

    The Tyrannosaurus rex says "Moooooooo"

  • Big Tex
    Big Tex

    With a knick knack paddy whack

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