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Scientists Find Soft Tissue in T-Rex Bone

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These undated photos provided by the journal Science show demineralized fragments of tissues lining the marrow cavity of a Tyrannosaurus Rex femur. Photograph A shows the demineralized fragment is flexible and resilient and when stretched (arrow) returns to its original shape. Photograph B shows the demineralized bone in (A) after air drying. The overall structure and functional characteristics remain after dehydration. Photograph C shows regions of demineralized bone showing fibrous character (arrows). These characteristics are not normally seen in fossil bone. Scientists who had to break a dinosaur bone to remove it from its sandstone location say they have recovered 70-million-year-old soft tissues from inside the bone. The find included what appear to be blood vessels, and possibly even cells, from a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

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Cool no?



Rarrr.

This post has been edited by Tidu-who on 25th March 2005 17:29

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Oooooh.
As a lad I was always fond of dinosaurs so this sparks a bit of nostalgia in me.
With the advances in cloning, maybe we could bring the T-Rex back? Even if it is an undeniably bad idea, it'd be cool anyhow...until it got big and killed us. But hey, just to say we did it!

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I would fully support cloning attempts on dinosaur cells. They (most likely) aren't the invincible killing machines that Jurassic Park and other movies portray them as; they wouldn't kill every living being on the planet.

Imagine how awesome that would be .

Modern cloning techniques usually involve stripping a fertilized egg of the genetic material within and replacing it with that of the creature which we desire to be cloned. So, we'd have to find a pregnant T-rex or creature similar enough for the procedure. Besides wich, the technique is not perfect; that sheep they cloned died within two years, definately not a sheep's normal life expectancy. Also, it would be tough to find all of the necessary chromosomes in good enough condition (that is, almost perfect) to not have some mutated freak. If a human can be seriously deformed by the alteration of only a handful of base sequences, I can't imagine what DNA millions of years old would produce.

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Quote (FraudulentTommah @ 25th March 2005 14:56)

I would fully support cloning attempts on dinosaur cells. They (most likely) aren't the invincible killing machines that Jurassic Park and other movies portray them as; they wouldn't kill every living being on the planet.

Imagine how awesome that would be .

You can play the role of Wayne Knight (Newman).

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To be fair that was one of those acid spitters

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Velociraptors, I think they were called...

Well, cloning dinosaurs seems like a technological advancement, but bringing monsters that aren't meant to live in this day and age would seem like unnatural to me. Scientists would see differently, I'm sure.

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Freak mutations would be even cooler! Like that god-aweful toyline with the spliced dinos. I agree, also, that they probably wouldn't overrun the planet. Say what you will about the power of nature, but its desease and the elements themselves which are the bigger threat to us. I mean, c'mon, these things aren't Aliens or zombies. With our military might, a big lizard would drop before it could be any serious threat; all we would need is some non-Hollywood scripted, intelligent defense planning. For the paranoid, we could even put them under constant survellance with bombs implanted in them just to be safe.

Even it could actually be cloned, I doubt anyone is willing to let them run wild.

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We should clone them but re-scale them down to fit in our pockets. Imagine, instead of finding a spider in your closet, attic or whatever, you'd find a mini T-Rex.
That'd be ridiculously hilarious.

Oh man, sitting on the bowl would never be the same.

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Okay, but there was a goat!

I'm sure they'll manage to make these T-Rex clones eventually. Although I bet it'll be made illegal and everything. Seeing a T-rex running down the street causing mayhem would be funny. ..if you're at home home watching it on the news anyway!

A question springs to mind though; if your average T-rex did use tissues to blow their noses, how did they cope considering how small their arms are?

This post has been edited by fatman on 27th March 2005 15:57

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I'd just like to see what color they were.

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I am fond of the idea only because I would rather run for my life from a Tyrannosaur than jokers with guns any day. An earth-shattering cry is more pleasing than gunshots or those annoying-as-hell sirens.

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Well, having the dinosaurs come back, while exciting, is a bad idea. Even the slightest interference in the ecosystem, and everything could go crazy. Now, I would love to see that as much as anyone else, but, it would really screw up the planet.

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Could you repeat that?

Quote (Shotgunnova @ 26th March 2005 03:08)

Velociraptors, I think they were called...

No, raptors were the killing machines. The acid-spitters were a different type entirely, with cobra-like facials fins.

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