Soft tissue found in dinosaur bones

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sixty-five million years extinct, not remotely possible
Actually, yes it is. It's incredibly rare but if the conditions under which the animal was fossilized were just right, tiny amounts of soft tissue can still be preserved. Peat bogs, for example, are great at preserving stuff because they're not an oxygen rich environment.
For example, in the old days when they buried you in a coffin, they weren't exactly air tight and so as you decomposed all that was eventually left was bones. That's because there's oxygen (and other natural forces) at work. With today's "air-tight" coffins, well let's just say that over the same period of time of decomposition, what you'd have left is a puddle of goo with bones in it.
 

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They should clone it so that we could buy real Brontosaurus burgers at the drive-in.

Probably tastes like chicken.
 

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. . ot sofet tissue found between men's ears.

Goody, has it been determined which continent he will escape into first?? You know, just in case an early exit looks like a good plan.
 

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The geological history of this planet is a long long way from settled despite what brain dead quackademics regurgitate to unsuspecting stewdents.
Uh, the only morons in the history of morons who ever claimed the science was settled on anything were the AGW acolytes.
 

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Actually, yes it is. It's incredibly rare but if the conditions under which the animal was fossilized were just right, tiny amounts of soft tissue can still be preserved. Peat bogs, for example, are great at preserving stuff because they're not an oxygen rich environment.
For example, in the old days when they buried you in a coffin, they weren't exactly air tight and so as you decomposed all that was eventually left was bones. That's because there's oxygen (and other natural forces) at work. With today's "air-tight" coffins, well let's just say that over the same period of time of decomposition, what you'd have left is a puddle of goo with bones in it.

You could have summed that all up with two words....

Anoxic environment
 

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The geological history of this planet is a long long way from settled despite what brain dead quackademics regurgitate to unsuspecting stewdents.
If I understood that on the first read should I stop my pills or double up? Inquiring minds want to know and so do I.
 

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You could have summed that all up with two words....

Anoxic environment
To understand a lot of today's illnesses a detailed look at 'altitude sickness' is worth the time and it's sums up the 'cure' in these words. 'If the patient cannot be moved then give oxygen as required, months or years being possible time frames. That could mean making the patients room that they spend the most of their time in at a level that would compensate for the defect their breathing exhibits.
That change alone would be an increase on O2 intake /day so that is like mild laughing gas and that can hardly be called a punishment. Being exposed to a high level is cured by giving the patient O2 (actual MSDS Sheet for ozone) There is no cure for that level of stupid. Ozone has a lifespan of about 1-3 hours when naturally created. It can be stored in water and consumed as it is made or olive-oil will keep in the fridge as a cream for about 1 year.

Except for the cough the black lung disease had symptoms that mimicked altitude sickness. The cure would have been the same, give the patient O2 as required. No cure given, no recovery observed.