Tyrannosaurus blood tissue found; get us an island!

[Scythe404]

http://www.calacademy.org/science_now/headline_science/T-rex_soft_tissue.html

HEADLINE SCIENCE: Dino Discovery

Scientists see the softer side of Tyrannosaurus rex.

When paleontologists find fossilized dinosaur bones during a dig, they usually do everything in their power to protect them, using tools like toothbrushes to carefully unearth the bones without inflicting any damage. However, when scientists found a massive Tyrannosaurus rex thigh bone in a remote region of Montana a few months ago, they were forced to break the bone in two in order to fit it into the transport helicopter. This act of necessity revealed a startling surprise: soft tissue that had seemingly resisted fossilization still existed inside the bone. This tissue, including blood vessels, bone cells, and perhaps even blood cells, was so well preserved that it was still stretchy and flexible.

A scanning electron microscope revealed that the dinosaur blood vessels, which are 70 million years old, are virtually identical to those recovered from modern ostrich bones. The ostrich is today’s largest bird, and many paleontologists believe that birds are the living descendants of dinosaurs. Scientists may be able to confirm this evolutionary relationship if they can isolate certain proteins from the recently discovered T. rex tissue. These proteins could also help solve another puzzle: whether dinosaurs were cold-blooded like other reptiles or warm-blooded like mammals.

Does this discovery of soft dinosaur tissue mean that scientists will soon be able to clone a Tyrannosaurus rex? Probably not – most scientists believe that DNA cannot survive for 70 million years. Then again, before this discovery, most scientists believed that soft tissue could not survive for 70 million years either.

We need Sam Neil and a guy with a cane right the hell now. The kid in me is just jumping.

[Amit]

in before vol flush says it's a fake

[Mr. Ron]

Dinos are a fiction! FIICCTTIONNN!!!


>_>

<_<

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

Dinos are all around us still!

look at the commodo dragon!

[Mr. Ron]

Dinos are all around us still!

look at the commodo dragon!

Omg don't play with my emotions like that. :[

hold me :(

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

Omg don't play with my emotions like that. :[

hold me :(

You know that you mean more to me than she ever could

[Amit]

komodo dragons more like commode draggin

[Surtr]

:eek:

[Mr. Ron]

You know that you mean more to me than she ever could

Awwwwww! lets elope!

[griftadan]

can we dedicate this thread to quoting jurrasic park?

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

can we dedicate this thread to quoting jurrasic park?

who needs quotes

lets just remember that part where the guy is on the toilet and is eaten by a dinoaur

who can honestly say that wasn't their favourite bit

[Samuel]

"I hate being right all the time".

[Surtr]

"Hey, when you gotta' go, you gotta' go"

/Man gets eaten by T-Rex

Cool news for sure though.

[EightMilesHigh]

lol wheres volumnius flush when you need him

who needs quotes

lets just remember that part where the guy is on the toilet and is eaten by a dinoaur

who can honestly say that wasn't their favourite bit

i remember seeing that when i was like eight and lmao'ing.

i totally forgot samuel l. jackson was in that

[Amit]

seeing that when you were eightmileshigh amirite

volflush is scared after all the previous butthurt he has gotten over dinosaurs

[Iskandar]

"See? Nobody could have predicted that."

[Mr. Ron]

RRRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN N

http://www.discovercreation.org/kidpage/cartoon%20dino.jpg

[Surtr]

RRRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN N

http://www.discovercreation.org/kidpage/cartoon%20dino.jpg

That's not a T-Rex!!!!


It's a Tricerotops...<_< >_>

[Mr. Ron]

That's not a T-Rex!!!!


It's a Tricerotops...<_< >_>

Like you would know. Have you ever stared death in the eye....well? HAVE YOU!? :angry:

[MattyBlade]

http://www.calacademy.org/science_now/headline_science/T-rex_soft_tissue.html



We need Sam Neil and a guy with a cane right the hell now. The kid in me is just jumping.

Old news I saw this on Discovery the 6 months ago or so when it happened.

[griftadan]

"god creates dinosaurs,
god destroys dinosaurs.
god creates man,
man destroys god,
man creates dinosaurs"

"dinosaurs eat man,
woman iherits the earth"

*blank stares*

dumb bitch.

[Styrofoam]

lol wheres volumnius flush when you need him



i remember seeing that when i was like eight and lmao'ing.

i totally forgot samuel l. jackson was in that

mother****in' dinosaurs on this mother****in' island


lololol

[Africa]

So is "get us an island" a reference to Jurassic Park, I get it now.

[spitfirejunky]

I've had it with these mother****in' dinosaurs in these mother****in' threads.

[Charlie Manson]

So is "get us an island" a reference to Jurassic Park, I get it now.

hmm you're a quick one

[pixiesfanyo]

hmm you're a quick one

123.

[MrSigma]

i hope we do bring them to life and laugh at all the hXc christians

[pixiesfanyo]

they'll just say dinosaurs are a goverment project.

[Africa]

What would we incubate the dinosaurs in?

[Knifeboy]

This is just more fuel for the "Earth is only 10k years old" people...
"If there's still relatively fresh tissue, then dinosaurs can't be millions of years old"

[Surtr]

So is "get us an island" a reference to Jurassic Park, I get it now.

We can call it Isla Sorna (sp?)! :) :chug:

[Surgicalgod]

dinosaurs are a government conspiracy...they want us to believe that the earth round too. i dont know why though.

[(*The Noonward Race*)]

What would we incubate the dinosaurs in?

Incubators.

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

http://objectiveministries.org/kidz/art/kidzart-jesus-saurus.png


u no it

[(*The Noonward Race*)]

"We have found tissue from Jesus riding a dinosaur! NOW WE CAN CLONE IT AND CREATE A JESUS RIDING A DINOSAUR"

[Futue te Ipsum]

omg no wai that coulda survived dis jus proovs dynosors wer arowned in da last 10000 years proving the youth of the earth haha losers

[Africa]

Incubators.

Lies.

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

"We have found tissue from Jesus riding a dinosaur! NOW WE CAN CLONE IT AND CREATE A JESUS RIDING A DINOSAUR"

Now there's an island I'd visit

[AA-12]

This is awesome. Seeing a real T-Rex would make life amazing, but it probably won't happen.

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

This is awesome. Seeing a real T-Rex would make life amazing, but it probably won't happen.

Did the film teach you NOTHING?

[ringworm]

^^lol, this is pretty cool though that the tissue survived in that state for this long

[griftadan]

ah, ah, ah, you didn't say the magic word.

[Chrysostom]

A scanning electron microscope revealed that the dinosaur blood vessels, which are 70 million years old, are virtually identical to those recovered from modern ostrich bones. The ostrich is today’s largest bird, and many paleontologists believe that birds are the living descendants of dinosaurs. Scientists may be able to confirm this evolutionary relationship if they can isolate certain proteins from the recently discovered T. rex tissue

Excellent, more evidence for evolution.

[Iskandar]

Excellent, more evidence for evolution.
I think the last pockets of creationism (save for the Deep South) may be eradicated within the next fifty years.

[Futue te Ipsum]

People still believed the world was flat in darwins time. Don't count your chickens.

[(*The Noonward Race*)]

I want DNA!

[Chrysostom]

I think the last pockets of creationism (save for the Deep South) may be eradicated within the next fifty years.

Here's hoping.

[Cain]

"Now that is one big pile of ****."

[Otherside]

I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it, you want to sell it!

[semi]

Further lab analysis shows that this TRex died by rolling in breadcrumbs and jumping into a pool of boiling oil. Either that or a some one on the excatvation site dropped a chicken McNugget.
Meme's aside, rather than welcoming the usual overlords, I'm just going to say that I welcome the opportunity to add Tyrannosaur meat to my next barbecue. Let's start cloning these things soon, guys. Dinner's waiting. jurrasic pork?

[Africa]

Har har, dino meat would seem like the greatest meat ever, so much protein.

[Eliminator]

testoffaithosaurus

[Knifeboy]

I'd kill for a McSaurus right now

[Krabsworth]

Anyone else thinking Cuba?

[Mr. Ron]

Anyone else thinking Cuba?

We could parachute dinos in to take care of Castro.


BRILLIANT!

[Amit]

ah but the cubans will use the same cloning technology to bring back castro in human-dino hybrid form :sad:

[Mr. Ron]

ugh wtf foiled again

[BassRevelation]

Meme's aside, rather than welcoming the usual overlords, I'm just going to say that I welcome the opportunity to add Tyrannosaur meat to my next barbecue. Let's start cloning these things soon, guys. Dinner's waiting. jurrasic pork?
there are two t-rex eggs in the world and i have both of them

:eek:

[Mr. Ron]

there are two t-rex eggs in the world and i have both of them

:eek:

Fry em' up.

[Krabsworth]

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/3659/lolatthisgl4.jpg

:D

[raab]

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/3659/lolatthisgl4.jpg

:D

hahahha. "Building the world's best animals since 1979" Hilarious.