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Skriven 2008-06-11 18:32:46 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
  Kommentar till text 17670 av Dan Ceppa (1:138/666.0)
Ärende: Re: Jumping Jack
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DC>WD> At least 60 million year old protein? I'll have to see it before I
DC>WD> believe it.
 
DC> No, 70 million years old.  Here's a cite on the finding
DC> of soft tissue:  tinyurl.com/5e3e3
 
DC> Here's one for dino protein:  tinyurl.com/5rkwo8
 
I've been a member of the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman MT now since about
1991. They're famous for their Hadrosaur finds, the Maiasaura Peeblesaurum
nests and their unique T-Rex with a 90% complete skeleton ... first one ever
with complete forelimbs.
 
During their receptions for members and donors access to Jack Horner, the
curator of paleontology, is easy. Especially coming from Belgium where the
first really big dinosaur find occured of a complete herd of Iguanodon
Bernissartensis (Iguanodon found near the town of Bernissart). The pile of
books we brought along about this find and available from the gift shop of the
Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels, now sits in the library of Montana
State in Bozeman.
 
Jack Horner's comments, though he is mentionned in some of these texts, are:
 
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Since an unknown process distinct from normal fossilization seems to have
preserved the material, the researchers are being careful not to claim that it
is original material from the dinosaur.
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Translated for the layperson it means that soft material has been found but
there is no trace it belongs to a dinosaur. Scientists are on the avenue that
protein has been replaced by other matter not belonging to that specific
dinosaur in a process similar to fossilisation where protein is replaced by
calcerous substances.
 
But the bottom line is what Bob Bashe says:
 
  "I'll believe it when I see the publication in NATURE"
 
and so far that is not happening. The study was rejected by NATURE even, so the
authors turned to SCIENCE instead.
 
It also seems the work was so unsuccessful that funding is running dry.
 
Nevertheless, have a nice day.
 
 \%/@rd 

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