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Cache in Chinese Mountain Reveals 20,000 Prehistoric Fossils (some with soft tissues preserved!)
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| Dec 2010
| Charles Q. Choi, LiveScience Contributor
Posted on 02/03/2011 12:44:21 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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A fossil of the dolphin-bodied marine reptile known as an ichthyosaur, discovered as part of a giant cache of nearly 20,000 fossils in China. Credit: Shixue Hu, Chengdu Geological Center in China.
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To: SeekAndFind
Cool.
If they can clone anything off of the soft tissue, I bet it tastes like chicken. ;-)
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02/03/2011 12:46:50 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
To: SunkenCiv
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02/03/2011 12:47:50 PM PST
by
FrogMom
(No such thing as an honest democrat!)
To: NormsRevenge
My question after reading this piece -— How are soft tissues preserved after MILLIONS of YEARS ? It’s amazing to see that DNA and protein can last for 80 to 150 million years.
I believe the paleontologists didnt expect to find soft tissue. It must have been a pleasant surprise ( a bonus ) to find them.
To: SeekAndFind
Life was nearly completely wiped out approximately 250 million years ago by massive volcanic eruptions and devastating global warming. So now the Permian Extinction was caused by .... Global Warming. Why not. If you can't blame Palin or Beck; blame global warming.
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02/03/2011 12:59:58 PM PST
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6SJ7
(atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
To: SeekAndFind
Who can we blame that global warming on?
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02/03/2011 1:01:25 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, A Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: 6SJ7
RE: So now the Permian Extinction was caused by .... Global Warming
If there were no greedy humans burning fossil fuels to create the warming, who did ? ( environmentalists won’t accept nature for an answer ).
To: SeekAndFind
“Nature”, phooey, everybody knows Bush went back in time and caused it.
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02/03/2011 1:06:02 PM PST
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gilor
(Pull the wool over your own eyes!)
To: SeekAndFind
They found Helen Thomas’ childhood pet? Sweet.
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02/03/2011 1:06:37 PM PST
by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: SeekAndFind
"The pattern and timing of recovery can tell us something about how life today might recover after human-induced crises," said researcher Michael Benton, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Bristol in England. Oh my God. These idiots are trying to tie Gore-bull warming to the Permian extinction event. That event had NOTHING to do with life-generated CO2; it was primarily vulcanism, from what I remember from extensive reading back when I was really interested in this.
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02/03/2011 1:08:05 PM PST
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backwoods-engineer
(Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
To: 6SJ7
I LOVE your nickname! I used to have some of those tubes in my junkbox!
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02/03/2011 1:09:05 PM PST
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backwoods-engineer
(Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
To: NormsRevenge
The Chinese will extract and grind em up for use as sexual potions.
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02/03/2011 1:09:27 PM PST
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SgtHooper
(The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
To: NormsRevenge
I think they mean the fossil impressions include the outline of soft tissue, unlike the reported discovery a couple years ago of
actual remaining soft and still pliable tissue inside a T-Rex bone after it was sawn in half.
That report, which I don't recall much else about after it originally appeared, opens up some questions for me about the validity of the "tens and hundreds of millions of years ago" concept of geologic time I've trusted since I was a little kid with my dog eared Illustrated Book of Dinosaurs.
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02/03/2011 1:11:21 PM PST
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katana
To: 6SJ7
If you can't blame Palin or Beck; blame global warming. Isn't Palin responsible for global warming?
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02/03/2011 1:11:26 PM PST
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SeeSac
To: SeekAndFind
Soft tissue bones??? I think the word they are searching for is “flaccid”.
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02/03/2011 1:11:49 PM PST
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King Moonracer
(Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
To: SeekAndFind
Cool is right. It is just what we would expect to find since the Flood catastrophically changed our world.
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02/03/2011 1:14:37 PM PST
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st.eqed
To: decimon; SunkenCiv
Bad-clams ping.
Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.
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02/03/2011 1:20:40 PM PST
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The Comedian
(It's 3am all over the planet.)
To: SeekAndFind
Life was nearly completely wiped out approximately 250 million years ago by massive volcanic eruptions and devastating global warmingCurse those darned SUV-driving, big-screen-TV-watching, obese, greedy, greenhouse-gas-belching Dimetrodons and Rugose corals!
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02/03/2011 1:26:57 PM PST
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rfp1234
(Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers!)
To: SeekAndFind
These fossils were obviously placed there by God in order to test the Young Earther’s faith. /s
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02/03/2011 1:29:50 PM PST
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LanaTurnerOverdrive
("I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of. And the things I am proud of are disgus)
To: NormsRevenge
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