I have a real problem with the material being 70 million years old, yet still flexible and flesh like...something just doesn't smell right...No pun intended!
Same here. 70 million years is a loooong time. It's not like this bone was frozen in a glacier.
Years ago, my college roommate dated a guy who liked Canadian Bacon pizza during the Fall semester. She and I both hated Canadian Bacon, but she pretended to like it for him. They would order these Canadian Bacon pizzas and sit on the living room floor and eat. They broke up by Thanksgiving, and so came an end to the Canadian Bacon pizzas.
The following Fall, we moved to a new apartment, and when we lifted the couch, we saw a pizza box under the couch. We opened it, and sure enough, it was 2 slices from a Canadian Bacon pizza looking as fresh as if it had been from the night before and not the year before. God knows what they put in those ingredients.....
I did check out the names mentioned – they’re legitimate. For the soft tissue to be preserved the animal had to have been killed and buried mighty quick to keep predators away and decomposition from setting in. Perfect ideal conditions that rarely happen. Heck, fossilization itself is mighty rare.
I concur. I cannot imagine even the most perfect preservation and ideal conditions, including the interior of a bone to be protected enough from time to preserve soft tissue.
I'm perplexed. I'd like to believe it. Of course, there are those who will say it's because the T-Rex either never existed or did so 10000 years ago. =/
"...70 million years old, yet still flexible..."
I don't have a problem with the still flexible and flesh like; I think the poopycock is in the '70 million years old'.
Maybe if we can resussitate this thing, it can tell us how old it really is.