Scientists Find Soft Tissue in T-Rex Bone

[FreedomAngel82]

I think this is something!

Link: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&e=1&u=/nm/20050324/sc_nm/dinosaur_to_dc

Snip: <WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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.

When they got it into a lab and chemically removed the hard minerals, they found what looked like blood vessels, bone cells and perhaps even blood cells.

"They are transparent, they are flexible," said Mary Higby Schweitzer of North Carolina State University and Montana State University, who conducted the study. >

More at the link.

[7th_Sephiroth]

1. fire-up the clone-o-matic

i'll get the ostrich eggs

[shraby]

3. It was a stroke of luck that the bone was

too large. Otherwise it would have laid around gathering dust in some musty museum back room, or used to build a display.

[lenidog]

9. You know its kinda funny

but I was reading the an article about the basements and storage of museums like the Natural History Museum in NY or the Smithsonian. The author it doesn't matter what field you are in such as geology, archaeology, paleontology you can make a career and maybe become famous in it without ever going into the field. All you have to do is dig around the storage areas. He daid there is stuff there that hasn't been looked at in decades.

[Benson]

5. I'll be at the Park on day one.

If I have to go, getting eaten by a T-Rex would be a great way to go!

[ogradda]

2. I heard about that.

So exciting. :)

[Swamp Rat]

4. Jurassic Park here we go! n/t

[Midnight Rambler]

16. Just don't put Newman in charge of security

:silly:

[Swamp Rat]

17. NEWMAN!

(In Jerry's voice) :D

[lenidog]

21. Well in the book it was even worse

They didn't know that the dinos were breeding because they only bred say 60 of the various types and computer was only programmed to count how many they were supposed to have. So the had a couple hundred running around the park and didn't even know it.

[OrlandoGator]

6. I'm not listening! LALALALALALA

Everyone knows that Man was molded from clay 5,000 years ago. The "dinosaurs" are all just a librul plot to get us to hate God.

[Placebo]

7. Can we clone one, please, please, PWETTY PWEEEASE?

How cool would a real Jurassic Park be? I wanna go! :)

[lenidog]

10. Yes you can as long as you promise to take care of it

and NO VELOCIRAPTORS!

[Placebo]

13. How about an all veggie Jurassic Park?

No danger for any of us! :D

[lenidog]

15. I can deal with that

Just can deal with highly intelligent, fast, pack hunting carnivores. If you thought that they were bad I remember reading about a skeleton they found in England of a dino that was the same family as the Velociraptors. The dino was twenty feet tall and its claw on its feet was a foot long.

[FreedomAngel82]

18. After seeing that movie

I don't think so. :\ I like my nice safe bed with my blankie. ;)

[Tux]

8. Sweet

Now we get protein strands from a T. Rex and see if we can get DNA for testing and comparision to birds. If it can happen, we may know if birds and dinosaurs shared traits to prove that birds evolved from dinosaurs.

Of course, poor dinosaurs and birds would burn in hell for not beieving in the Bible literally.

[OrlandoGator]

12. But think of the badass dinosaur vs. demon battles!

It's gonna be so freakin' rad!

[Tux]

19. Demons vs Dinosaurs

With my luck, it's be on pay-per-view.

[Greylyn58]

11. That is cool....n/t

[Endangered Specie]

14. Ha! GO NCSU

we may have lost the game, but we will soon have Jurassic Park on campus :) ;)

[Liberal In Texas]

20. It's a great story. They cloned it and it looks just like....

Sorry...couldn't resist.