paleonet PaleoNet: Soft tissue in dinosaur bone

[Allison Daley <adaley4@xxxxxx>]

I did some background research on the website sent to Paleonet earlier this
weekend, found at http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2005/0325Dino_tissue.asp

This article describes soft tissue discovered in a dinosaur bone, and similar
reports can be found on many other websites including CNN and MSNBC (where the
articles do not draw the conclusion that this tissue means dinosaurs are only a
few thousand years old).  All of these reports seem to be based on an article
published in Science on March 25, 2005.  The reference is:

Schweitzer, M.H., Wittmeyer, J.L., Horner, J.R. and J.K. Toporski. 2005.
Soft-tissue vessels and cellular preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex. Science
307: 1952-1955.

I don't know what to make of this intriguing research.  Any thoughts?

Allison

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Allison Daley
M.Sc. Candidate
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada
adaley4@uwo.ca