Thursday, September 03, 2009

More Steps Forward Regarding Dinosaur Soft Tissue

I've written a few articles on the astonishing discoveries made by scientists recently where soft tissue is being found in dinosaur fossils. I've stated that that there is no way soft tissue can survive tens of millions of years and remain what would be classified as soft.

Now a peer review of these discoveries by the Royal Society of Biological Sciences has published a very interesting take on the situation called Preservation of Key Biomolecules In The Fossil Record: Current Knowledge And Future Challenges. It's a short abstract, but in case it's a bit dry, let me translate:

We think there might be something fundamentally wrong with laboratory data on biochemical decay rates, or something.

OK. Good. Now where do we go from here? And we're walking; we're walking....

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