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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."

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  1. Obligatory Post by IAMTHEMEDIA · · Score: -1, Troll

    God Creates Dinosaurs God Destorys Dinosaurs God Creates Man Man Destroys God Man Creates Dinosaurs Christains sue and take over America Theocracy reigns in a new technological Dark age. I hope the Christain Coalition and Right Wingers stuff it with no LAME EXCUSES.

    1. Re:Obligatory Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      YOUARETHEASSHAT

  2. Re:Jurassic Park by bsgk · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well if Bush would lift the ban, we could use those AWESOME embryonic stem cells instead. Just insert DNA and POOF! - A T-Rex.

  3. Re:Dinosaurs are a myth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    It's still an interesting problem. God decided that we'd be bored without any good brain teasers, so he planted trillions of intricately intertwined clues throughout the universe to make it look as if the world were billions of years old and as if life evolved over all that time.

    It's great fun an all, but it's really just a game about a lost fantasy world, kind of like Myst. I'm looking forward to the day when our top puzzle solvers figure out the ending.

    In the meantime, if you want the real description of the world, you'll have to look at the 10th-generation transcripts of what a few Bronze Age prophets said that God told them.

    That God of ours is a real card. He just loves to keep us busy guessing.

  4. Re:Dinosaurs are a myth by Aceto3for5 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Here goes my karma...

    Dinosaurs were created when other land animals were created (not including our sea-faring dino-brethern). They died in the flood, along with most everything else that wasn't in the ark at the time. Noah didn't bring two of every species, just two of every kind, so there was no need for massive holding pens to hold the big guys. A primitave alligator or crocodile probably sufficed.

    So, no dinosaurs are not a myth, just mythunderstood.

  5. Re:Precedent by jwcorder · · Score: 0, Troll

    IF by cute you mean rat faced, then yes she is VERY cute.

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