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Title: T-Rex soft tissues found Post by: ConfusedUs on 2005-03-25, 03:09 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7285683/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7285683/)
WASHINGTON - A 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil dug out of a hunk of sandstone has yielded soft tissue, including blood vessels and perhaps even whole cells, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday. Paleontologists forced to break the creature's massive thighbone to get it on a helicopter found not a solid piece of fossilized bone, but instead something looking a bit less like a rock... You may now insert your random, "Nature finds a way," jokes. Seriously, this is very cool. I love the idea of paleontologists around the world cracking open their collections to see if they can get some meaty center. Title: Re: T-Rex soft tissues found Post by: Phoenix on 2005-03-25, 03:41 Fossilized T-Rex: Canned meat! Open 'er up and see if it's still fresh.
Cloned mutant T-Rex: This kind of canned meat tends to open YOU up instead! I think, should they find actualy DNA, that any attempt to clone a dinosaur would be a serious mistake. I don't just mean a "Jurassic Park" scenario here, either. I only mention this because you know people will try it, or at least put forward the idea. Title: Re: T-Rex soft tissues found Post by: Moshman on 2005-03-25, 19:46 Interesting...
Title: Re: T-Rex soft tissues found Post by: l4mby on 2005-03-25, 20:24 SWEET ! I'd be more interested to see what it all looks like under a microscope to see the similarities between then and now. They could compare cell structures, etc. to different species of today. Depending on how well preserved it is, I would also tend to think that perhaps it could also give clues as to how the dinosaurs really died off.
Title: Re: T-Rex soft tissues found Post by: Phoenix on 2005-03-26, 05:36 Oh, I wouldn't expect any obvious clues to that sort of thing.
Title: Re: T-Rex soft tissues found Post by: shambler on 2005-03-26, 09:45 Has a mamoth been cloned yet? that tissue has been found a feew years ago, if I remember rightly.
Title: Re: T-Rex soft tissues found Post by: l4mby on 2005-03-26, 17:48 Quote from: Phoenix Oh, I wouldn't expect any obvious clues to that sort of thing. Well, just a thought. I spose it could possibly rule out a thing or 2 as opposed to nailing it on the head as well. Reaching out in left field, but they could still be in the ball park. *snickers* =PTitle: Re: T-Rex soft tissues found Post by: ConfusedUs on 2005-03-26, 17:49 I want a pet miniature TRex that'll eat those annoying stray dogs and cats. ;)
Title: Re: T-Rex soft tissues found Post by: games keeper on 2005-03-28, 17:42 I want a protoceratops , there cute and not to big .
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