Dinosaur Fossil Found With Preserved Soft Tissue

damn_registrars writes "A fossilized hadrosaur has been uncovered in South Dakota that has preserved soft tissue. This is described as a "mummified" dinosaur, and allows for a look at the skin and musculature of some parts of this animal. The find was reported by a 24 year old Yale graduate student of paleontology."

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North Dakota, Not South Dakota

[eldavojohn]

First line of the summary:

A fossilized hadrosaur has been uncovered in South Dakota that has preserved soft tissue. First line of the article:

A high school student hunting fossils in the badlands of his native North Dakota discovered an extremely rare mummified dinosaur that includes not just bones but also seldom seen fossilized soft tissue such as skin and muscles, scientists will announce today. For those of you who have not visited both North & South Dakota, I have. They are, in fact, not the same place. The submitter was probably confused as the belief that nothing comes from North Dakota is a well known fact. However, this news and fossil flies right in the face of that so I have to rework my post graduate thesis on black holes--it seems information can escape.

Also, since I just watched Bender's Big Score repeatedly, "It's DOLOMITE, baby!"

You see, beneath the fossil's crunchy, mineral shell, there's still a creamy core of hadrosaur nougat!

Re:North Dakota, Not South Dakota

[gEvil (beta)]

Oh sure. Next I suppose you're going to try to convince us that there's a NEW Mexico. I'm not falling for that one again...

Re:North Dakota, Not South Dakota

[Jesus_666]

There was, in the early nineties. It didn't work out and they had to re-release Classic Mexico. It was the biggest failure of the North American nation industry until the Crystal Canada fiasco.

Another great moment in science:

[martianred]

a hadrosaur's backside was about 25 percent larger than previously thought. That's... great. ... So when can we clone it already?

Re:Another great moment in science:

[Jesus_666]

The larger-backsize finding was actually met with exuberance by the international archaeological community, with butt expert and OBE Sir Mixalot exclaiming "I like big butts and I cannot lie".

"You get sprung", added Mixalot.

However, not all scientists applaud the finding, with polymath and host of the popular science show Infinite Solutions Mark Erickson criticizing that this finding will further reduce the scientific community's interest in tiny dinosaurs, which he describes as sadly overlooked.

Also In news: Dinosaur Saddle

[Anonymous Coward]

A team of creationist paleontologists from the Discovery Institute's main field research arm announced today that they had discovered the remains of a large manmade object confirmed to be an ancient dinosaur saddle. The Discovery Institute's discovery was discovered in the remote Dusty Rivers area of southwestern Arizona. A spokesman for the paleontological team said that the dinosaur saddle provides irrefutable proof that man and dinosaurs lived simultaneously, as predicted by most creationist or "intelligent design" doctrines.

http://www.avantnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=126

Re:Also In news: Dinosaur Saddle

[FiloEleven]

It was found in "Mud Flaps, AZ" by one "Dr. Booble." Looks legitimate to me...

Re:Also In news: Dinosaur Saddle

[orclevegam]

Well, what do you think this part suggests?

Dr. Booble's colleague, Dr. D. Oxy Ribonucleic

He was born for this type of work? Clearly intelligent design at work.

Was the dinosaur

[antifoidulus]

smashing a house when it died?

A quote from Dr. Malcom

[sexybomber]

1. God creates dinosaurs
2. God destroys dinosaurs
3. God creates man
4. Man destroys God
5. Man creates dinosaurs

Re:A quote from Dr. Malcom

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course you'd forget the best part:

6. Dinosaurs eat man... women inherit the Earth.

Done before

[cthulu_mt]

I think they stole this story from the episode of "Denver the Last Dinosaur" wherein Denver disguises himself as a mummy to avoid capture.

Another example of my childhood being recycled. Maybe them can get Michael Bay to crap all over the live-action version.

Re:Well, damn

[nacturation]

Well what if we paid $999 for a complete DNA scan and sent it in?

FTA?

[CarpetShark]

According to the FTA...

the Fucking Terranosaur Article?

Large Backside ...

[Archangel Michael]

"a hadrosaur's backside was about 25 percent larger than previously thought."

So, its a J-Lo-asaur ?

Or perhaps a Bodonkadonkasaur?

Re:Also: Mammoth DNA

[John Hasler]

You don't have to worry about the Endangered Species Act unless the critter in question is on the list. However in most states you can only get a license to keep wild animals if you can show that the particular animals you propose to keep came from a licensed breeder who could not have gotten a license without showing that his animals came from a licensed breeder. Since your cloned mammoths would be the direct, immediate descendants of wild animals, the authorities would obviously have to sieze them and release them into the wild.

So get to work cloning those velociraptors.

Re:..and it will happen again.

[jamstar7]

Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Condi, of course.

MMMmmm!

[Shuh]

Tastes like chicken!

Re:No clone wars

[Soothh]

You know whats funny, the space scientists (from a show I saw yesterday on discovery) say the whole universe is only 12 billion years old.

So is science so jacked up that they have THAT much of a difference?

Yet noone can believe this book we have that lays it all out for us.

"Scientists that go about teaching that evolution is a fact of life are great con men, and the
story they are telling may be the greatest hoax ever. In explaining evolution, we do not
have one iota of fact."
Dr. Newton Tomasian, scientist for the Atomic Energy Commission

New funding!

[maciarc]

In a related story, Harland Sanders, a spokesman for an unnamed company, said he would be presenting the University of Manchester Dept. of Paleontology with a one billion dollar donation for the study of the recently unearthed soft tissue fossil. "This is a very important find that must be studied without concern for cost." stated the honorary Colonel from Kentucky. "I mean, look at the size of those drumsticks!"

Re:Also: Mammoth DNA

[Fred_A]

Og has mammoth license. Is written on cave wall.

Question does this mean....

[SandiConoverJones]

Question does this mean that McRib is back?

Re:Also: Mammoth DNA

[Anonymous Coward]

Og has mammoth license. Is written on cave wall. This is a dog license with the word 'dog' crossed out and 'mammoth' written in in charcoal.

Re:No clone wars

[ultranova]

RTFA. There's no DNA; the fossilization process was fast enough to fossilize soft tissue. It's not organic material.

Yes, but all you have to do is cast Stone to Flesh on the fossil to bring it back to life. Quickly, before they release the Fourth Edition of D&D, for you never know if this particular spell will be removed !

Re:No clone wars

[Copid]

Is newton not a real person either?

I'd like to point out that I am against both antibiotics and the refrigeration of meat and dairy products, as Newton did not come out in favor of either one. Relativity blows too.