[extropy-chat] That T-rex

[Damien Broderick]

NYT:

< Workers at a field site in Montana had broken the 70-million-year-old 
fossilized thighbone of a Tyrannosaurus rex in half for purely logistical 
reasons - huge bone, small helicopter. When scientists examined the bone 
fragments in the lab, they discovered something no one expected to find - 
unfossilized soft tissue, including blood vessels and the cells that line 
them.

Just how these tissues were preserved is a very good question, one that may 
lead scientists to re-examine their theories of fossilization. >

The answer is obvious: the T-rex, and all the other dinosaurs, were not 
70-or-more million years old after all, but only 6000 at most. Praise the Lord!

Damien Broderick