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Scientists Find Soft Tissue in T-Rex Fossil
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."
Let the cloning begin!
Where's Jeff Goldblum when you need him?
Now we know that when the cloned T-Rex escapes, if you stand perfectly still it won't see you!
hail our new cloned-DNA T-rex overlor-*CHOMP*
May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage. RAmen.
If I said it once, I've said it a thousand times...
Modern helicopters are just too small!
mmm, soup!
after all, earth is only 6000 years old and was created in 40 days, unless my sources are wrong
We can check for traces of tar, nicotine and other toxins, and scientists will get to end the extinction debate. Seriously, might this be the biggest news of the decade? Longer?
Looks good for your age..
those damn SUVs better watch out. Yeah, who owns the road now %^*@$!
Anybody got a handy chaos theorist? Anybody? Seriously, I need a chaos theorist, oily hair, glasses, fuzzy math skills, preferably debauched.
Alternatively do any of you know anything about UNIX systems?
"Scientists Find Kleenex Tissue in T-Rex Bone"... and thought "those damn litter pigs"!
Homer: He may be rich, but money can't buy everything!
Marge: Like what?
Homer: . . . A Dinosaur!
I want to be the first 35 year old kid on my block with a T-Rex. Leash laws be damned!
I HAVE CUBIC WISDOM THAT TRANSCENDS AND CONTRADICTS ONE DAY GODS
We can clone secret t-rex weapons and release them on fueding countries to settle wars! ...
Or we could just open a theme park, go visit, and get killed.
Just remember that he can't see you if you don't move.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -Alan Kay
Why would a T-Rex be using Kleenex?
Hello?... Is this thing on?
WHY did it have to be the DNA of a T-Rex? Why couldn't it have been a nice herbivore, like a stegosaurus, or even better, one of those little chicken-sized dinos?
Now there's going to be running and screaming, and it's all going to be a big huge mess.
Technoli
Let the cloning begin! ...
Eh.
Mmmm... It -does- taste like chicken. If you can imagine 10,000 year-old chicken getting better with age.
Now if I can just find a 10,000 year-old White Zin to go with it...
Bruce Lane, KC7GR,
Blue Feather Technologies
"Paleontologists forced to break the creature's massive thighbone to get it on a helicopter..."
Who was heading this team, Homer Simpson?
I can just see him now:
Homer: "Grrr..."
Lisa: "Dad, it's just too big to fit in there."
Homer: "Nonsense Lisa, daddy will just shove it in....Grrr....here it goes...." *snap* "...DOH!"
Sugapablo
They preserved soft tissues because they had a successful anti-aging skin cream industry.
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Ignorance of "Time Cube" indicts you stupid and evil. Explain the "Time Cube". Do you like being Stupid? "Our Cube" corners Liars!
This is not the first identification of soft protein laden tissue that has been extracted from dinosaur tissue as Mary Schweitzer at North Carolina State University has extracted these tissues from other tissues as well, so there is a precedent.
Of course getting actual DNA from these tissues will be a long shot due to its fragile nature, but protein sequence may prove very informative in letting us define exactly where genetic lineages have gone over evolution.
Thanks for spoiling our fun. Can we get back to the Jurassic Park jokes please?
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Whoever clones one first! I mean, who's gonna argue with a guy who has a friggin T-REX backing him up?
Monsanto. They want to take threatening and bullying farmers with patented gene-infected crops to a whole new level.
668.5
...they broke Marc Bolan apart and found soft tissue inside?
I'm not good in groups. It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent. - Q
...the NRA. They have never looked as attractive as they do today...
The obligitory Matrix Quote
"We're gonna need Guns...Lots of Guns"
I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence. Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1845
And even if they can't find all of the DNA, they'd just have to stir in some frog DNA and let the T-Rex fix itself.
FreeSpeech.org
Mary Schweitzer is the scientist in both of these stories. Seems she's got a knack for finding fossilized soft tissue.
"Oh darn, I have yet again rented the small helicopter, what a klutz I am. It seems that will have to cut up this precious fossil that is too large to get on board. Woe is me, had we brought the large helicopter, this here fossile would have been taken to museum without having been chopped up... oh, look at that..."
Clever lass.
You can't take the sky from me...
Now just watch.
Now just watch. People will clone Tyrannosaurs, and they'll turn out to be cute-colored, friendly carrion eaters.
"It felt almost as good as stealing cars from grandma." -- Margaret Thatcher, probably.
God creates dinosaur.
God kills dinosaur.
God creates man.
Man kills God.
Man creates dinosaur.
Dinosaur eats man.
Woman inherits the earth.
I likes armadillos!
crunchy on the outide, smooth on the inside.
its from a Dime bar commercial in the mid 90s. Its a UK thing, maybe other parts of europe. But I guess in the states things are king size so...
I Likes t-rex-adillos!
First, the parent is not a Troll. Who modded the parent Troll?
But the parent does use some kind of wierd logic.
The logic the parent should use goes something like this...
Those who would give up liberty in exchange for security and DRM should switch to Microsoft Palladium!
Ahh. This just proves that Evolution is BS, and that the earth is not hundreds of millions of years old. It is just a couple of thousand years old. Soft tissue could have lasted that long. In your FACE scientists. The dinosaurs were obviously killed in the crusades because they were dumb animals that didn't believe in Jesus. Duh.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
"It's all Oooh and Ahhh, now, but just wait until the screaming begins later..."
If they clone a T-rex, don't they have to clone Jeff Goldblume, too?
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Jesus man, don't give CNN any ideas or for the next six months we'll be inundated with reports of terrorists plotting to attack New York with a T-Rex built from black market DNA.
Although, the military applications of a T-Rex would be great. If only we could figure out how to mount this friggin' laser beam...
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"So, I'm not expecting to ride on a tethered T-rex at the state fair anytime soon."
Well, just in case they do get it working, and you want to give the T-rex a treat afterward, remember to keep your palms flat.
This is my sig. It's prescription, I swear. I need it for reading things... on the other side of things
C'mon, she's a nerd girl, she automatically gets a bonus for that. She's got nice legs. And archaeological digs tend to be out in the middle of nowhere and last for months and months with no other stimulation...what would you think then? Darn right.
Lab analysis reveals that that the soft tissue was a Chicken McNugget dropped by a site worker eating his lunch.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
I can't. I don't speak Japanese.
...Bubbah T. Hatfield, who assisted in loading the large bones into the helicopter, said "shore wuz a bitch gittin that big 'un on the bird. Had tah bust it in half, and I cut muhyself and bled like a stuck pig all over it. Hope duh head bitch ain't pissed or nothin' "