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Hadrosaur Proteins Sequenced

Posted by Soulskill on from the don't-tell-hammond dept.

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."

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  1. Great by tdp252 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe we should start using stimulus money to build some type of theme park, maybe on a remote island.

    1. Re:Great by i+kan+reed · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah - and any missing DNA can just be taken from common frog species!

      Whatever it takes to get two of them. Once we have those, we can get to the REAL science. Large Hadrosaur Collider.

    2. Re:Great by Shinmizu · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm sure there's something in Tesla's lab that we can scrounge up to make an instant cloning device for time savings.

  2. Re:MMMM - Tastes like chicken? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually ostrich tastes and looks like beef.

    One of the best steaks I have had was medium rare ostrich.