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Dinosaur Soft Tissue Finally Makes News - Dec 2, 2009
/article/dinosaur-soft-tissue-finally-makesBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... on the technical scientific journal articles published about soft tissue found inside dinosaur remains, mainstream media outlets have largely been silent on the subject. But a recent segment that aired on CBS’s 60 Minutes finally broke the...
The Mysteries of Stunning Soft Tissue Fossil Finds - Dec 20, 2010
/article/mysteries-stunning-soft-tissue-fossilBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... controversial soft tissue finds of North Carolina State University paleontologist Mary Schweitzer are gaining renown, and for good reason. She found organic material in fossilized dinosaurs and other creatures that should not have existed after...
Green River Formation Fossil Has Original Soft Tissue - May 12, 2011
/article/green-river-formation-fossil-has-originalBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - million years and older. What are the odds, then, of original soft tissue fossils being found encased in its rock? A new study showed that a "fossilized" lizard leg found in the formation is not made up of minerals, but instead still...
Latest Soft Tissue Study Skirts the Issues - Jul 5, 2011
/article/latest-soft-tissue-study-skirts-issuesBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... demonstrating that certain dinosaur remains contain original soft tissue. Of course, since this material should have completely decomposed after only thousands of years, none should be left after the millions of years assigned to these remains....
Peer Review Fails in Soft Tissue Study - Jul 18, 2011
/article/peer-review-fails-soft-tissue-studyVarious Authors - ... paleontologists is how to explain the fact that original soft tissue…which should decay in only thousands of years…still persists in fossils that are supposedly millions of years old. A recent scientific paper was titled...
Triceratops Horn Soft Tissue Foils 'Biofilm' Explanation - Mar 18, 2013
/article/triceratops-horn-soft-tissue-foilsBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... have endured. One popular pushback asserts that the soft tissues are not from the dinosaurs at all, but from bacteria that somehow infiltrated their bones and built biofilms in the same shapes as dinosaur tissues and cells. A new report...
Dinosaur Soft Tissue: Biofilm or Blood Vessels? - Oct 1, 2008
/article/dinosaur-soft-tissue-biofilm-or-blood-vesselsBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... paleontologist Dr. Mary Schweitzer accidentally discovered soft tissues preserved inside dinosaur bone.1 While examining the bone structure from an incompletely fossilized T. rex nicknamed "B. rex," she came upon what appeared to be...
Dinosaur Soft Tissue Issue is Here to Stay - Sep 1, 2009
/article/dinosaur-soft-tissue-issue-here-stayBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... recent decades, soft, squishy tissues have been discovered inside fossilized dinosaur bones. They seem so fresh that it appears as though the bodies were buried only a few thousand years ago. Since many think of a fossil as having had the...
Soft Tissue Time Paradox - Nov 30, 2015
/article/soft-tissue-time-paradoxVernon R. Cupps, Ph.D. - ... 68 million years.1,2 Indeed, many observations of soft tissue in fossils dated at millions of years have occurred since 1977.3 The dilemma these observations present for deep-time advocates was immediately recognized, and controversy...
What Does It Take to Fossilize a Brain? - Mar 11, 2009
/article/what-does-it-take-fossilize-brainBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... Charles Darwin predicted that “no organism wholly soft can be preserved.”2 Yet here was fossilized soft tissue. How could this be? One hypothesis is that the environment in which the fish died was very rich in certain compounds....