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Soft Tissue Discovered In T-Rex Bone
kubla2000 writes, "Paleontologists have discovered soft tissue inside the fossilized thigh bone of a T-Rex. The tissue included blood vessels, bone cells, and perhaps even blood cells." From the article: "When paleontologists find fossilized dinosaur bones during a dig, they usually do everything in their power to protect them, using tools like toothbrushes to carefully unearth the bones without inflicting any damage. However, when scientists found a massive Tyrannosaurus rex thigh bone in a remote region of Montana a few months ago, they were forced to break the bone in two in order to fit it into the transport helicopter. This act of necessity revealed a startling surprise: soft tissue that had seemingly resisted fossilization still existed inside the bone. This tissue... was so well preserved that it was still stretchy and flexible."
I for one welcome our...
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*sigh*
within 10 years there will be an accident at a small island.....
Does this mean I can have a t-rex as a pet in a few years? Please?
The. Movies. Must. End. Here.
"It's time to take life by the cans." ~ Bender ("Bendin' in the Wind", ep. 3-13)
Now all we need to do is fill in the missing pieces of the DNA with frog DNA to make them sterile and we can have an amusement park! It worked well in the movies. Wait, how did that end? I suggest we send Bush, Britany Spears, K-Fed and Nancy Grace to open the park ;)
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Perhaps get Dolly the sheep to sign up as a surrogate mother?
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god put that bone there to test our faith!
I'm a rabbit startled by the headlights of life
This begs the most abvious question. What does T-Rex tast like?
You make soup out of bones? Get it? T-Rex soup? Sigh, evermind...
Having to work for a living is the root of all evil.
This story has in fact been posted twice before:
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I'm looking forward to future news stories about the impending release of Windows 95 and the announcement of the Apple Mac's shift to the PPC platform from the m68k.
Quoth Slashdot article,
Have you ever seen a child brush their teeth? If it weren't for fragile bristles, there would be nothing left of the poor soul's mouth. That given, now all those matured (non-aborted) fetuses can get their revenge on this excavation site. It is my determination that the wonderful creationists are brushing history away as we speak. As an environmentalist, I am against this excavation! Someone needs to make these excavators stop pulling ancient ruins and decaying material from the natural environment. Soon, we will have none left for *sing* Future Generations(R) */sing* to excavate.
These said, it's the duty of all environmentalists around the world to plant skeletal remains of modern dead and decaying creations, to deter these creationists from finding the Holiest of relics. For the execution of these matters, I the Father of all that is naked and green due appoint Green Peace and their agents for any of the duties as needed to Cleric or Barrister the matter from causing further tresspass.
The Oath of Office shall acceptable and the office there derive be filled on the first Saturday at noon, and begin processing durring banking hours Monday through Friday nine o'clock in the morning until five o'clock after noon.
I am the nightmare of nightmares.
It must've been masturbating....
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
Further lab analysis shows that this TRex died by rolling in breadcrumbs and jumping into a pool of boiling oil. Either that or a some one on the excatvation site dropped a chicken McNugget.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
In other news:
Fossilized Slashdot Headlines Presented As Fresh News
crappy triceratops
Time to start cloning those babies and burying them.
Only terrorists want the president eaten by fictional dinosaurs!
Oh yeah? Then who are all of those people I line up with every year to see him at the mall? HMM??? You've tried to put us down for years with all of your "facts" and "science," but we all know the truth.
Keep talking like that, mister, and you're going to find a lump of coal in your stocking this year...
-- Minds are like parachutes... they work best when open.
If scientists specializing in clausology are able to determine the exact mechanism by which the Claus Man is able to deliver all those gifts in a single night, we will have a solution to the world's energy problems.
That is the promise that study of Clausology holds out to all of mankind and people here are scoffing at it? I think they're astroturfers here on behalf of the oil industry...
"Our morality is good, theirs is repressive."- Partisanship Rule #3
What's a year? That bone is old. Really old. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly old it is. You may think that it's a long time between dupes on Slashdot, but that's peanuts compared to the age of this bone...
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Of course it's a year old. I've been brushing up on my Unix skills, just in case. What about you?
and this guy
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get's to use the exact same joke twice!
I mean, we don't start discussing whether Santa Claus exists every time a Christmas related story pops up
Oh come on, nobody seriously questions the existence of Santa Claus. All of us gentile children receive very real, tangible evidence of his existence. This sets Santa Claus head and shoulders above characters like God, Jesus, the Invisible Pink Unicorn and the FSM (pasta be upon him!). We could debate whether or not there really is a Santa Clause, but it's really a moot question. The debate would serve no purpose in the face of overwhelming evidence of Santa's continued existence.
The more interesting argument, I think, is why Santa continues to hold to medieval beliefs about the inherent superiority of the children of the aristocracy. He continues to this day to give the children of wealthy parents higher value gifts and a higher overall average number of presents. Clearly he missed the bourgeois revolution.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett (1794 - 1865)
Doesn't matter if it's soft inside..it's still scary as shit.
Ok, work with me here...
Instead of filling in the holes with frog DNA, what would happen if we used the late Liberace's DNA? I can imagine immediate benefits to both zoological research and Vegas. Would we get, for instance:
(Thought experiment segues into dream sequence. Location: Mr. Newton's agent's office. We only hear the agent's end of the phone conversation in progress.)
"...but Wayne, baby...you know this is killing me as much as it's killing you! All I'm saying is that ya just can't get a paying gig in this town anymore unless you weight 6,000 pounds, are greenish-brown and can belt out show tunes on a Steinway. This Liberzilla fellow has just got the entire place by the short hairs! Listen--Wayne, sweetheart...I got an idea! I know this plastic surgeon, see, who also dabbles around with Human Growth Hormone...what's that? You know it, Kiddo, the stuff's illegal...but this is your career we're talking about! So hear me out here..."
(Dream sequence fast forwards 10 years ahead)
Slashdot headline:
Apple Calls It Quits on the iPod and iTunes
brontobassist writes,
(End Dream Sequence. End thought experiment.)
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The sooner all the animals are extinct, the sooner we'll find their money.
—Ed Bluestone
10 bucks says it has feathers when it's cloned.
Anything can, could, and will happen.
Frogs are easier to catch.
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You hear that whoosh? Yeah, that was the sound of a joke going over your head faster than the speed of light.
...the dinosaur barbecues you.
Since we're on the OT thread of taste...
So two cannibals are eating a clown when one says to the other, "Does this taste funny to you?"