[Callahan]

Is Disney in on this?

[MplsSteve]

Wow, I'm having a vision of a real Jurassic Park sometime down the road.

[My2Cents]

Amazing. Soft tissue lasting for 70 million years!

[RightWhale]

Wow! Twice in one day! Just how much soft tissue, no DNA of course, is lurking in those rocks?

[nmh]

IF it was that old, 70 million years, there would be NO "soft tissue". Geesh! How stupid are these people? Don't tell me. I really don't want to know.

[marvlus]

Wow, maybe we can clone a new source of oil!

[dread78645]

Crevo Thread

[Lando Lincoln]

What's the big deal??? Just go over to DU and you can find a lot of soft tissue.

Lando

[Publius6961]

Uh oh... !

If the next thing we learn is that the age is less than 6000 years, I'm gonna freak.

[theFIRMbss]

>A 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil dug out of a hunk of sandstone has yielded soft tissue, including blood vessels and perhaps even whole cells, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday

"I got your body right now on my mind And I've drunk myself blind To the sound of old T-Rex To the sou-ou-ound Of old T-Rex Oh, and Who's Next . . ."

Very cool. I want to drink myself blind to the sound of old T. Rex!

[aimhigh]

I am 55 million years old. Now that this is in print, it must be true. Who was here to prove me wrong?

[Woodworker]

Can anyone shed any light on how the 70-million-year old date was determined? How could soft tissue survive for that length of time, especially encased in rock?