The fossilized bone of a T-rex supposedly 70,000,000 years old broke open revealing soft tissue inside, including what may be blood vessels & cells. It's all over the news. Now they're admitting they've found soft tissue inside fossils of other T-rexes & hadrosaurs.
OK, the big question. If the T-rex bones are as old as evolution claims, how on earth did the soft tissue remain preserved million years?
See the news below. This is no fake.
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WASHINGTON -- For more than a century, the study of dinosaurs has been limited to fossilized bones. Now, researchers have recovered 70-million-year-old soft tissue, including what may be blood vessels and cells, from a Tyrannosaurus rex.
If scientists can isolate proteins from the material, they may be able to learn new details of how dinosaurs lived, said lead researcher Mary Higby Schweitzer of North Carolina State University.
"We're doing a lot of stuff in the lab right now that looks promising," she said in a telephone interview. But, she said, she does not yet know if scientists will be able to isolate dinosaur DNA from the materials.
It was recovered dinosaur DNA -- the blueprint for life -- that was featured in the fictional re-creation of the ancient animals in the book and film "Jurassic Park."
The soft tissues were recovered from the thighbone of a T. rex, known as MOR 1125, that was found in a sandstone formation in Montana. The dinosaur was about 18 years old when it died.
Brooks Hanson, a deputy editor of Science, noted that there are few examples of soft tissues, except for leaves or petrified wood, that are preserved as fossils, just as there are few discoveries of insects in amber or humans and mammoths in peat or ice.
Soft tissues are rare in older finds. "That's why in a 70-million-year-old fossil it is so interesting," he said.
Matthew Carrano, curator of dinosaurs at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, said the discovery was "pretty exciting stuff."