# Scientists recover T. rex soft tissue **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 24, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089 "2005-03-24T21:28:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089/21 "2005-03-24T23:45:35Z")
If this is a prank, they better put the joker in the witness protection program. This is beyond cool, and I will be VERY upset if it’s a lie. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089/22 "2005-03-25T00:11:05Z")
Maybe they’ll find evidence that mosquitos sucked on the dinosaur blood, and then they’ll be able to _clone ancient mosquitos!!!_ ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089/23 "2005-03-25T00:31:52Z")
Clute, TX already did that, **Cal**. Right shut down the patio area of the Dairy Queen, I’ll tell you whut! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089/24 "2005-03-25T00:35:37Z")
> [@](#): > > Clute, TX already did that, Cal. > > Right shut down the patio area of the Dairy Queen, I’ll tell you whut! Hayato…wha? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089/25 "2005-03-25T00:36:39Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > If this is a prank, they better put the joker in the witness protection program. > > This is beyond cool, and I will be VERY upset if it’s a lie. Sure, you think it’s cool now. But then later, there’s running, and screaming… ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089/26 "2005-03-25T00:52:21Z")
NC State…? Frackin’ A. ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089/27 "2005-03-25T01:45:56Z")
This makes me want to bang a gong. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089/28 "2005-03-25T02:02:14Z")
Holy cow!!! :eek: Absolutely fascinating stuff, I´d hate to find out it´s a hoax, but I just can´t wrap my mind how the tissue could survive for 70 million years, no matter how very well isolated it may have been. But then there are mummies that keep rather fresh (although much, much younger), in spite of being much more exposed to the elements, so I guess that it´s possible. ---
**Author:** ![Sample\_the\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089/29 "2005-03-25T02:08:53Z")
Ok, I know “me, too” posts are frowned upon, but this is just way too 🆒 !!! ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089/30 "2005-03-25T02:38:00Z")
Now we just need about a barrel of hot wing sauce, and a LOT of blue cheese dressing… Anyone got a 10-foot long celery stalk to cut into strips? ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089/31 "2005-03-25T03:01:48Z")
I don’t think\* anyone\* could ever find a ten foot tall one. Now a [seven foot tall celery stalker](http://www.animalrights.net/archives/year/1999/000084.html), that’s a diffrent story. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089/32 "2005-03-25T03:43:22Z")
**Science Now** has an article about in online already (AAAS members only) that gives some of the same details in the articles linked, and some quotes from Mary Schweitzer. The same article also includes this caveat: > [@](#): > > Hendrik Poinar of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, cautions that looks can deceive: Nucleated protozoan cells have been found in 225-million-year-old amber, but geochemical tests revealed that the nuclei had been replaced with resin compounds. Even the resilience of the vessels may be deceptive. Flexible fossils of colonial marine organisms called graptolites have been recovered from 440-million-year-old rocks, but the original material–likely collagen–had not survived. Not to rain on the parade, but the chemical testing idea is, according to the report still at the “seeking funding” stage. Way cool, though. I should be able to read the article in Science tomorrow, although my hard copy never gets here before Monday. Tris ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089/33 "2005-03-25T08:54:03Z")
T-Rex, it’s what’s for dinner! ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089/34 "2005-03-25T13:13:44Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Maybe they’ll find evidence that mosquitos sucked on the dinosaur blood, and then they’ll be able to _clone ancient mosquitos!!!_ Oh, great. That’s what we need around here. Mosquitos with t-rex DNA. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089/35 "2005-03-25T13:16:44Z")
> [@Daithi Lacha](#): > > Now we just need about a barrel of hot wing sauce, and a LOT of blue cheese dressing… > Anyone got a 10-foot long celery stalk to cut into strips? Pshaw. I’m waiting for them to find Apatasaurus soft tissue. _Then_ we can talk some serious Buffalo Things!!! Seriously, though, I’m dying to find out what this stuff looks like under the microscope. Maybe preserved cell structure? Surely preserved DNA is too much to expect. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089/36 "2005-03-25T13:32:14Z")
Of course, as soon as I post something concerning microscopes, I find that the New York Times article has some [microscope pictures](http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2005/03/24/science/24cnd-dino.ready.html). Coooooooooooooooooool. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089/37 "2005-03-25T13:36:21Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Sure, you think it’s cool now. But then later, there’s running, and screaming… Yo Quiero Taco Bell? Here Leezerd, Leezerd, Leezerd! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089/38 "2005-03-25T13:44:10Z")
**Woman Finds T-Rex Soft Tissue in her Wendy’s Chili** (Call Dinosaur Carl!) ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089/39 "2005-03-25T13:49:09Z")
I can’t help but be reminded of the scene in _The Mummy_ where the heros open Imhotep’s sarcophagus only to discover that “he’s still…_juicy_!” Imagine the immediate reactions of the field paelontologists when they cut into the thing to get it on the 'copter… ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089/40 "2005-03-25T14:09:50Z")
> [@Lissa](#): > > Young Earth Creationists are going to have a _field day._ We’ll never hear the end of it. When I mentioned this to a guy I work with this morning he said something like “They’re already starting to doubt the 70 million year age”. This is the same guy who mentioned last week he doesn’t believe in evolution. Yup, this is certainly going to be mixed blessing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-recover-t-rex-soft-tissue/296089.md?page=3)