Dinosaur soft tissue
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* "65-million" Year Old T. rex Soft Tissue: The
T. rex photos above are actually old news, whereas all the latest published journal papers, through 2014, are listed chronologically,
below. As for these photos though, North Carolina State University discovered this original biological tissue from a supposedly 65-million-year-old
Tyrannosaurus Rex thighbone, with transparent and pliable blood vessels containing red blood cells. See these and other
T. rex photos at
Smithsonian Magazine and
MS-NBC, and see an early
Nat'l Geographic report. Famed paleontologist
Jack Horner of Montana State University worked the
excavation site. In a 2011 development, ten leading universities and institutes including Harvard, the University of Manchester, and the University of Pennsylvania published in PLoS One, a peer-reviewed journal, that they had verified that presumed dinosaur material is indeed
original biological tissue from a dinosaur! Creationists refer to dinosaurs as
missionary lizards for many reasons including:
- the short-lived
Carbon 14 everywhere including in dinosaur bones
- the
521-year half-life of DNA that helps date the actual age of fossils containing dinosaurian genetic material, and
- the mostly
left-handed amino acids that should be equally right and left-handed if they were "Jurassic", and
- the research on Egyptian mummies that established 10,000 years as an upper limit for how long original biological molecules could survive. Interestingly, the renowned evolutionist
PZ Myers ridiculed our Real Science Radio program by repeating what had been a widely-discredited secular hope that the "soft-tissue" dinosaur finds were "
biofilm" contamination from bacteria. But as
60 Minutes shows and Bob Enyart sums it up, "This is dinosaur."