Scientists recover tissue from T. rex

March 24, 2005 | Washington -- 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.

"We're doing a lot of stuff in the lab right now that looks promising," she said in a telephone interview. But, she said, she does not know yet if scientists will be able to isolate dinosaur DNA from the materials.
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Tom Delay will make this illegal.

undisturbed in their final resting place

although it might be harder to get human DNA out of that pile of crap with helmet hair than the jurassic sample.

or at least about very old ideas and a reptilian worldview

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Ban dinosaur marriage. Dinosaurs are evidence for evolution when you trace them and birds. They're immoral and unbiblical. They must be stopped. We can't allow the dinosaur agenda to continue.

Their dawdling along the evolutionary tract are putting us all to shame !

70 million years and that someone actually found it! I gotta think it's an extremely rare occurrence for it to happen in the first place and then the odds of it actually being found and recovered! What are the odds???

I can understand if it's encased in amber how it might be preserved, or maybe even in a tar pit, but this was found in a sandstone formation...Amazing!

I know. I'm a complete geek but after having two little boys who were total dinosaur freaks I couldn't help but have it rub off on me. I am absolutely amazed. How cool!

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Tesha