I'm gonna call my T-Rex Chuck..How about you?

[johnnie]

Scientists Find Soft Tissue in T-Rex Bone

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil dug out of a hunk of sandstone has yielded soft tissue, including blood vessels and perhaps even whole cells, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday."

"Paleontologists forced to break the creature's massive thighbone to get it on a helicopter found not a solid piece of fossilized bone, but instead something looking a bit less like a rock.

When they got it into a lab and chemically removed the hard minerals, they found what looked like blood vessels, bone cells and perhaps even blood cells. "

snip:
" 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."

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



Man... I am psyched. I want one.

[ET Awful]

1. Didn't they learn ANYTHING from Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg?

:)

[johnnie]

2. Maybe they aren't really mean

If you get 'em when they are baby T-Rexes, then you can train them. I'm gonna train mine to ride me around town. I can ride him (or her) to work and save the gas money.
They can just eat on the way.

[ET Awful]

3. LOL . . . and what exactly will they eat on the way?

the townsfolk? :) :) :)

If you're gonna do that, move to Texas or Oklahoma or some such and call the few local non-Repugs around and warn them ahead of time :).