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Anyone knows what research came out after scientists recovered 70 million-year-old T. rex soft tissue back in 2005 ? I remembered being blown away by the fact w
by mrb 3y ago
Anyone knows what research came out after scientists recovered 70 million-year-old T. rex soft tissue back in 2005 ? I remembered being blown away by the fact we could have soft tissues instead of fossilized remains... https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7285683 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7285683
- femto 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Higby_Schweitzer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Higby_Schweitzer
- mrb 3y agoThanks! So not only preservation of soft tissue was confirmed, although the exact mechanism is not fully understood. But also there are "multiple lines of evidence for material consistent with DNA in dinosaur" found in fossils https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S875632821201318X?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S87563...
- lostlogin 3y ago> multiple lines of evidence for material consistent with DNA in dinosaur After reading a paper I don’t think I’ve ever had a thought like this before: did they run that past a legal team before publication? That sounds like a lawyer wrote it.
- mrb 3y agoThe language surprised me too! I realize the researchers wanted to be extra cautious (enough to pass peer-review) and that's the reason I did a literal quote instead of paraphrasing.