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Hadrosaur Proteins Sequenced
jd writes "In a follow-up study to the one on proteins found in a T. Rex bone, the team responsible for the T. Rex study sequenced proteins found in an 80-million year old Hadrosaur fossil. According to the article, the proteins found confirm the results of the T. Rex study, proving that what was found in T. Rex was not a result of modern contamination, as had been claimed by skeptics, but was indeed the genuine thing: real dinosaur protein. Furthermore, despite the new fossil being 12 million years older, they claim they got more out — eight collagen peptides and 149 amino acids from four different samples. This, they say, places the Hadrosaur in the same family as T. Rex and Ostriches, but that not enough was recovered to say just how close or distant the relationship was."
How close does this leap make us to cloning dinosaurs which then break loose in an orgy of violence and destruction a la Jurassic Park ?
Or do chicken taste like Hadrosaur / T-Rex?
Can't wait for my McHadrosaur burger with a side of fries and coke.
Maybe we should start using stimulus money to build some type of theme park, maybe on a remote island.
Burp
Respect to fossil biologists for tough work - it's like putting together jigsaw puzzle that's missing majority of its pieces. That being the case, I wish they choose their terminology, like the term "prove", bit more judiciously, lest us plebs gets misled.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
This is great news for our Large Hadrosaur Collider project!
Then, upon seeing this Slashdot article, I finally understand. The ostrich is a very distant relative of the dinosaurs.
One ostrich egg could probably provide 10 servings of scrambled eggs -- and enough cholesterol to kill a gorilla.
Mmmmm...collagen peptides. Does it make a tasty cake with mint frosting?
Hadrosaur collider...sigh...Jurassic Park...yawn...dinosaur burger...wake me up when someone makes an original joke.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
Oh ho ho.
What they left out of the article was *why* the skepticism. Here it is.
These tissue types can only last hundreds of thousands of years, tops. So ... either it's fake, or there's some unknown preservation process at work here, or -
These specimens are not millions of years old.
That would square with the many puzzling astronomical discoveries which indicate "too young" objects (such as active planets and young comets), but cause havoc with the popular concept of how old the solar system is.
Heh heh. I love it!
Hadrosaur porn!
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
Wow! Human DNA contains only 20 amino acids. (Actually, there is a 21st, but it's extremely rare.) I wonder what the Hadrosaur was doing with so many of them.
It sounds like our world really lost a lot at the K-T impact event.
(And isn't it wonderful how ambiguous the English language can be, especially in the hands of journalists. ;-)
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
This president believes in Science. OTH, W and reagan were your best bet for such an idea.
According to the article, the proteins found confirm the results of the T. Rex study, proving that what was found in T. Rex was not a result of modern contamination, as had been claimed by skeptics, but was indeed the genuine thing: real dinosaur protein.
"Prove" is pretty strong word. What evidence is there that these hadrosaur proteins are just not _more_ modern contamination?
I wonder how the dinosaur deniers will take this. If they think God put fossils in the ground to test their faith, then they really must not like this new evidence
When can google use these to mow their grass. `Goats are Ok, but these should taste like chicken.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
the whole species went extinct when they were all asked, simultaneously, "what exit?"
Imagine being a great dinosaur, passing away, waiting in the mud for 40 million years, and the descendants of proto-marmots dug you out of the ground to play with your fluids.
Be nice to the lesser critters.
You can believe anything. So you don't need to make up your own plausible explanation (or better: implausible), you just declare you don't believe that yet, and when some other nutjob has come up with a far-right field explanantion, you start to believe that one, because the guy goes to the same church as you do. In the end, your peer group/tribe is more important thzat reason, especially for unreasonable people.
Akkatjoemabh!
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