[cripplecreek]

Same here. 70 million years is a loooong time. It's not like this bone was frozen in a glacier.

[RobRoy]

>>Same here. 70 million years is a loooong time. It's not like this bone was frozen in a glacier.<<

I'll go on record as one of the skeptics. Then again, maybe the "young earth" crowd was right. ;^>

[IonImplantGuru]

Same here. 70 million years is a loooong time. It's not like this bone was frozen in a glacier.

For those poo-pooing the possibility of having 'flexible soft tissue' after 70,000,000 years, consider: this area (Montana) may have been glaciated for 99.99% of that time. The event that took out the dinosaurs along with 90% of all other life has been postulated to be an asteroid strike near present-day Cancun. Such an event would have generated a 'nuclear winter' effect due to all the debris and water vapor thrown into the atmosphere. Kind of your basic quick-freeze.

On top of that, now encapsulate your T-rex specimin in sandstone. Why shouldn't some soft tissue survive - even 10K years into the present inter-glacial period?

[Ditter]

I am remembering something from many years ago but I am not sure if it was true or a joke. Was an extinct critter found frozen in a glacier and the meat served up at a banquet or something? Maybe it happened (or didn't happen) in the 40's or 50's.