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Ancient Fossilized Bone Marrow Found

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-so-squishy-anymore dept.

anthemaniac writes "Last year scientists recovered soft tissue from a T. rex. Now LiveScience is reporting that researchers have found fossilized bone marrow, the first discovery this this type of soft tissue, in frog and salamander fossils dating back 10 million years. Since the bone marrow was discovered 'in an environment vastly different form the one in which the T. rex soft tissue was found,' scientists now hope they'll find soft tissue in other environments and maybe from ancient mammals."

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  1. Don't! by Eightyford · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just don't mix dino DNA with that of a frog's! Apparently they will have man-babies, because nature always finds a way!

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  2. How young can a fossil be? by Xzzy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ancient Fossils?

    There's some other kind of fossil?

  3. Re: While looking for more information, by Black+Parrot · · Score: 3, Funny

    > I stumbled on a report that we're "returning" 42 cartons of dinosaur eggs to China. Is that propoganda?

    It's a subtext metaphor: we are giving them "42" - the secret of Life, the Universe, and Everything - which is symbolic of the continual flow of our technology and military secrets to them.

    Now you try it: what would the subtext be if the report had said 69 cartons of dinosaur eggs?

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