Thursday, April 19, 2007

T Rex was Forghorn Leghorn's Grandpa.

I was interested to read on the BBC's science and nature website that palaeontologists have discovered proteins in a T Rex fossil that shows very a very close resemblance to those of chicken proteins. This is not entirely surprising as it’s pretty much accepted that modern birds have a direct evolutionary line to dinosaurs.

What is really amazing is that organic material can survive the fossilisation process. As Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State says, “It has always been assumed that preservation of [dinosaur bones] does not extend to the cellular and molecular level. The pathways of cellular decay are well known for modern organisms. And extrapolations predict that all organics are going to be gone completely in 100,000 years, maximum."

I wonder what lame gaps the creationist losers are going to come up with?

On a related note: -
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/11DavidNg.html

http://www.fstdt.com/

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