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Scientists Find Soft Tissue in T-Rex Fossil

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the and-it-actually-tasted-like-chicken dept.

douglips writes "Reuters is running a story about a shocking development in paleontology: A T-Rex thigh bone fossil was reluctantly broken to fit in a transport helicopter, and inside soft tissue was found. It appears to include blood vessels and bone cells. Scientists hope to isolate proteins, and perhaps even DNA."

3 of 978 comments (clear)

  1. T-Rex Stem Cells? by Zsinj · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So, does this count as stem cell research? If so, it can't happen in the US. Bush outlawed stem cell research - did he include a clause about non-animal stem cells? He's pretty stupid, so I don't think he would have :P

  2. Re:But how? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because its probably not 70 million years old. One of the greatest lies about evolution is that REAL science is discarded to pursue religious faith in millions of years. You'll easily get people who can come up with fantastic ideas of how soft tissue could possibly survive 70 million years with no basis in fact that change every ten years.

  3. Re:Methods of Soft Tissue Preservation by Phillup · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It would have been helpful if the scientists had provided a hypothesis on the preservation of the tissues.

    Maybe they didn't want to sound stupid.

    (via Boing Boing)

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    --Phillip

    Can you say BIRTH TAX