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To: Natufian
Wrong again, Natufian. The authors of the paper say that the "the muscle tissue is organically preserved in three dimensions, with circulatory vessels infilled with blood."

Or how about this from Schweitzer re: T. rex:

“ In modern bone, removing the minerals leaves supple, soft organic materials that are much easier to work with in a lab. In contrast, fossilized bone is believed to be completely mineralized, meaning no organics are present. Attempting to dissolve the minerals from a piece of fossilized bone, so the theory goes, would merely dissolve the entire fossil. But the team was surprised by what actually happened when they removed the minerals from the T. rex femur fragment. The removal process left behind stretchy bone matrix material that, when examined microscopically, seemed to show blood vessels, osteocytes, or bone building cells, and other recognizable organic features.”

30 posted on 11/11/2009 9:59:23 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

“Wrong again, Natufian. The authors of the paper say that the “the muscle tissue is organically preserved in three dimensions, with circulatory vessels infilled with blood.””

Oh, come off it. Your wilful misrepresentations would be irritating if they weren´t so laughable. I´m sure that you´re aware that lying to further the cause is only valid in Islam.

Here is an abstract from the actual paper presented by the scientists who did this research on the fossolized salamander:

“The very labile (decay-prone), non-biomineralized, tissues of organisms are rarely fossilized. Occurrences thereof are invaluable supplements to a body fossil record dominated by biomineralized tissues, which alone are extremely unrepresentative of diversity in modern and ancient ecosystems. Fossil examples of extremely labile tissues (e.g. muscle) that exhibit a high degree of morphological fidelity are almost invariably replicated by inorganic compounds such as calcium phosphate. There is no consensus as to whether such tissues can be preserved with similar morphological fidelity as organic remains, except when enclosed inside amber. Here, we report fossilized musculature from an approximately 18 Myr old salamander from lacustrine sediments of Ribesalbes, Spain. The muscle is preserved organically, in three dimensions, and with the highest fidelity of morphological preservation yet documented from the fossil record. Preserved ultrastructural details include myofilaments, endomysium, layering within the sarcolemma, and endomysial circulatory vessels infilled with blood. Slight differences between the fossil tissues and their counterparts in extant amphibians reflect limited degradation during fossilization. Our results provide unequivocal evidence that high-fidelity organic preservation of extremely labile tissues is not only feasible, but likely to be common. This is supported by the discovery of similarly preserved tissues in the Eocene Grube Messel biota.”

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2009/10/09/rspb.2009.1378.abstract


40 posted on 11/11/2009 10:15:54 AM PST by Natufian
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To: GodGunsGuts

In case the length or the big words in the abstract from my previous post causes you problems, the operative sentence is as follows:

“Here, we report fossilized musculature from an approximately 18 Myr old salamander...”

Lying, even if it is spread your version of the Word, won´t endear you to God.


43 posted on 11/11/2009 10:28:50 AM PST by Natufian
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