insertwackynamehere Posted March 27, 2005 http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/03/24/rex.tissue.ap/index.html Wow real t-rex flesh! 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted March 27, 2005 Fry'er up with some onions. But seriously this could do wounders from the scientific community. 0 Share this post Link to post
Snarboo Posted March 28, 2005 Damn, that's pretty amazing. It boggles my mind how something that soft and delicate could exist for 70 million years. They better discover some amazing stuff because of this, or I want my money back! 0 Share this post Link to post
wildweasel Posted March 28, 2005 Before reading the freakin' article, I thought this was another eBay sale (a Kleenex that bore the shape of a T-Rex head). But this...this is cool, but I don't know how it'll contribute to overall scientific progress... 0 Share this post Link to post
insertwackynamehere Posted March 28, 2005 Needless to say this is a huge breakthrough. I mean people thought it would be impossible to get dino dna in mosquitos and here we are getting it straight off the bone, from an excavation? Thats pretty amazing. 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted March 28, 2005 What stopped it from decomposing. The mammoth was frozen. This was in sand stone. I'm assuming the bone also did not go through fossilization either, which would also contain DNA then. 0 Share this post Link to post
Little Faith Posted March 28, 2005 Probably this will cement the already pretty solid evidence that birds descended from theropod dinosaurs. 0 Share this post Link to post
Kelzam Posted March 28, 2005 I wonder what excuse the religious groups who claim dinosaurs are some fake conspiracy will come up with now. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lord FlatHead Posted March 28, 2005 I want one as a pet. Fuck you, mr. burglar! 0 Share this post Link to post
Spike Posted March 28, 2005 To quote the report on BBC News... Inevitably, people will wonder whether the creature's DNA might also be found. But the "life molecule" degrades rapidly over thousand-year timescales, and the chances of a sample surviving from the Cretaceous are not considered seriously. 0 Share this post Link to post
insertwackynamehere Posted March 28, 2005 That doesn't make sense... if there is still tissue, wouldn't there still be DNA? ugh maybe I'm completly wrong :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted March 28, 2005 insertwackynamehere said:That doesn't make sense... if there is still tissue, wouldn't there still be DNA? ugh maybe I'm completly wrong :P Yah there is but like the mammoth its decomposed pretty bad. At least with the mammoth they could fill in dammaged strands with elephant DNA. Rememmber from Jurassic Park. They filled in missing cromosones with African Frog DNA. 0 Share this post Link to post
Quast Posted March 28, 2005 Xenphire said:I wonder what excuse the religious groups who claim dinosaurs are some fake conspiracy will come up with now. They've had a bunch already, long before this. Like, dinosaurs did exist, but god killed them in the flood...or you have old-earth creationists that believe in evolution being gods handiwork...and you still have the fucks that will flat out say this t-rex tissue is the work of the devil. You cannot reason with many of these people, and no amount of scientific evidence will convince them I'm afraid. 0 Share this post Link to post
Piezo Posted March 29, 2005 Technician said:Yah there is but like the mammoth its decomposed pretty bad. At least with the mammoth they could fill in dammaged strands with elephant DNA. Rememmber from Jurassic Park. They filled in missing cromosones with African Frog DNA. They actually made a mommoth? When was this? How could they know where the broken codes begin and end to patch them? 0 Share this post Link to post
Quast Posted March 29, 2005 Piezo said:They actually made a mommoth? no 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted March 29, 2005 Piezo said:They actually made a mommoth? When was this? How could they know where the broken codes begin and end to patch them? No they didn't. I watched the bio on the Mammoth corpse they found. If they can get a strand of DNA. Meaning they can fragment it together with elephant or piece it together, It is possible to create a mammoth through about ten generations of elephants. Each Generation more mammoth then the last. I hope they do one day. 0 Share this post Link to post
Quasar Posted March 29, 2005 Knowing what we know now, it would have been much more prudent for the Jurassic Park scientists to have patched dinosaur DNA with bird DNA and not frogs. Frogs are separated from the dinosaurs by hundreds of millions of years of evolution, whereas birds are a relatively recent descendant. Birds also don't spontaneously change sex, which would have prevented that whole nasty reproduction thing ;) 0 Share this post Link to post
insertwackynamehere Posted March 29, 2005 Quasar said:Birds also don't spontaneously change sex, which would have prevented that whole nasty reproduction thing ;) And made the movie boring and stupid _oO 0 Share this post Link to post
Scabbed Angel Posted March 29, 2005 Once step closer to Jurassic Park! 0 Share this post Link to post
Zodiak Posted March 30, 2005 Technician said:Fry'er up with some onions. I'm with you on that one!! 0 Share this post Link to post
Quasar Posted March 30, 2005 Actually some scientists were served mammoth steak once, taken from an extremely well-preserved Siberian specimen. The article said it was pretty tough meat, though ;) 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted March 30, 2005 Scientists strive to fond presserved specimens and they eat it. Fucking idiots. 0 Share this post Link to post
Csonicgo Posted March 30, 2005 why did I think of " louisiana" when I read the "fry 'er up" post? anyway, this is a major breakthrough, bla blah blah. 0 Share this post Link to post
Quasar Posted April 2, 2005 Well as far as the mammoth went, we aren't hurting for mammoth specimens, they still find those things frozen in Siberia and elsewhere. Also, there was a lot of meat, and they didn't serve even nearly all of it :P I think it was a publicity stunt for research funding or something. 0 Share this post Link to post
Snarboo Posted April 2, 2005 Quasar said:Actually some scientists were served mammoth steak once, taken from an extremely well-preserved Siberian specimen. And that, my friends, is why mammoths are extinct. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted April 2, 2005 Well, that IS actualy one of the theories. They still aren't quite sure what happened to all the megafauna. 0 Share this post Link to post
Stealthy Ivan Posted April 2, 2005 T-rex used a tissue? Did not know dinosaurs blew their noses! 0 Share this post Link to post
fodders Posted April 2, 2005 His arms are way too short to blow his nose. 0 Share this post Link to post