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T-Rex Soft Tissue Found!! DNA?

Gartref
25-03-2005, 01:08
They have found soft tissue in a T-Rex bone. Jurassic park, here we come!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&e=1&u=/nm/20050324/sc_nm/dinosaur_to_dc

"Of course, the big question is whether it will be possible to see dinosaur DNA. "We don't know yet. We are doing a lot in the lab now that looks promising," Schweitzer said."

UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE!
Potaria
25-03-2005, 01:09
Sounds cool. I always said that Jurassic Park could happen, though not on such a disastrous scale (it would be highly unlikely, but it could happen).
Zouloukistan
25-03-2005, 01:15
Cooooooooool!!! Let's clon them!!!!
Wisjersey
25-03-2005, 01:16
Yeah, it's pretty cool indeed.
Nevareion
25-03-2005, 01:17
From the BBC report here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4379577.stm) I understand that they are not sure if it is not a soft form of fossilisation. At least thats what I think it says...
The Mindset
25-03-2005, 01:19
Time for dino sushi?
Garthman
25-03-2005, 01:19
nice one bring it on....just hope they are released into the wild and not put in cages..... :D
Sandy Planet
25-03-2005, 01:20
I dunno, I think that thanks to today and the advances in genetic research that soon society will be able to map out any genetic code. So, some scientist could in theory send out the genetic code of a dinosaur to some less then scrupolous groups and well, they could grow some beasts out in the middle of nowhere and then unleash them upon some city
Alien Born
25-03-2005, 01:22
Marc Bolan is finally laid to rest.
Wisjersey
25-03-2005, 01:26
Marc Bolan is finally laid to rest.
Whom?
Lord Zulu Mats-Wana
25-03-2005, 01:31
there is the problem that there isnt really ne thing big enough for us to grow one inside yet (due to the technicalities of cloning requiring a "mother") except for an ostrich...but w/e still awesome
Karas
25-03-2005, 01:39
The cloned T-Rex must be turned into a cyborg war machine.
Bodies Without Organs
25-03-2005, 01:40
Whom?

Kids today... don't know they're born.
Alien Born
25-03-2005, 01:43
Whom?

A London Boy, or perhaps The Groover

Or in bad taste: a cover of "Wrap a yellow mini round an old oak tree".