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Soft tissue found in T-rex fossil by Laughing Boy at 2:07 am EST, Mar 27, 2005 |
"For more than a century, the study of dinosaurs has been limited to fossilized bones. Now, researchers have recovered 70-million-year-old soft tissue, including what may be blood vessels and cells, from a Tyrannosaurus rex. If scientists can isolate proteins from the material, they may be able to learn new details of how dinosaurs lived, said lead researcher Mary Higby Schweitzer of North Carolina State University." Amazing ANYTHING would remain viable after 70 million years! We're still a long way from "Jurassic Park", but who knows... LB |
Soft tissue found in T-rex fossil by flynn23 at 12:15 pm EST, Mar 27, 2005 |
"For more than a century, the study of dinosaurs has been limited to fossilized bones. Now, researchers have recovered 70-million-year-old soft tissue, including what may be blood vessels and cells, from a Tyrannosaurus rex. If scientists can isolate proteins from the material, they may be able to learn new details of how dinosaurs lived, said lead researcher Mary Higby Schweitzer of North Carolina State University." NEATO! |
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