Jurrasic Park around the corner?


A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil has yielded what appear to be the only preserved soft tissues ever recovered from a dinosaur. Taken from a 70-million-year-old thighbone, the structures look like the blood vessels, cells, and proteins involved in bone formation.

...Let us not forget the poignant words of Jeff Goldblum's character (paraphrased due to my memory) that we should consider not whether we can do something but also whether we should.

A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil has yielded what appear to be the only preserved soft tissues ever recovered from a dinosaur. Taken from a 70-million-year-old thighbone, the structures look like the blood vessels, cells, and proteins involved in bone formation. National Geographic has one of the many stories.

Let us not forget the poignant words of Jeff Goldblum's character (paraphrased due to my memory) that we should consider not whether we can do something but also whether we should. Either way, this is a really amazing discovery.

Posted: Fri - March 25, 2005 at 07:27 AM         |

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