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Well, the headline says "intact".

• dang 9y ago
  Ok, we've de-intacted the title above.
  • jacquesm 9y ago
    Disagree. Intact for a 110M year old fossil means just that, it does not mean that the tissue has not been fossilized, it means it has not decomposed as it normally would. If soft tissue and skin follow their normal path all you'd have is bones. Intact here means that the material is still present, but in fossilized form (just like fossilized bones are no longer the same as real bones). The 'intact' is very much important here because that means it is not just fragments.
    • kyberias 9y ago
      But clearly many here understood it so that there is literally intact skin and tissues that could be used to extract DNA. So the word "intact" was misleading.
      • jacquesm 9y ago
        The context is archeology, not grocery shopping.
        • kyberias 9y ago
          No, the context is _paleontology_. But I get your point. We disagree and I accept that.