Just to be clear here, the claim is "soft tissue".
Neither osteocytes nor bone are "soft tissue".
* "65-million" Year Old T. rex Soft Tissue: The
T. rex photos above are actually old news, whereas all the latest published journal papers, through 2013, are listed chronologically,
below. As for these photos though, North Carolina State University discovered this original biological tissue from a supposedly 65-million year old
Tyrannosaurus Rex thighbone, with transparent and pliable blood vessels containing red blood cells. See these and other
T. rex photos at
Smithsonian Magazine and
MS-NBC, and see an early
Nat'l Geographic report. Famed paleontologist
Jack Horner of Montana State University worked the
excavation site. In a 2011 development, ten leading universities and institutes including Harvard, the University of Manchester, and the University of Pennsylvania published in PLoS One, a peer-reviewed journal, that they had verified that presumed dinosaur material is indeed
original biological tissue from a dinosaur! Creationists refer to dinosaurs as
missionary lizards for many reasons including:
- the short-lived
Carbon 14 everywhere including in dinosaur bones
- the
521-year half-life of DNA that helps date the actual age of fossils containing dinosaurian genetic material, and
- the mostly
left-handed amino acids that should be equally right and left handed if they were "Jurassic", and
- the research on Egyptian mummies that established 10,000 years as an upper limit for how long original biological molecules could survive. Interestingly, the renowned evolutionist
PZ Myers ridiculed our Real Science Radio program by repeating what had been a widely-discredited secular hope that the "soft-tissue" dinosaur finds were "
biofilm" contamination from bacteria. But as
60 Minutes shows and Bob Enyart sums it up, "This is dinosaur."
* Dinosaur-strata tissue from "70-million year old" Mosasaur: As
below, and in this
peer-reviewed report by researchers including from Lund University in Sweden and Southern Methodist University in Dallas, scientists confirm another biological tissue discovery using sophisticated techniques to rule out modern contamination, bio-film, etc., concluding that original biological collagen exists in a small bone from an extinct marine reptile called a mosasaur. Yet according to a
report in Science Magazine as it relates to the discoveries of dinosaur tissue, scientists calculate the
maximum survival time of collagen not in millions but in thousands of years.
* More Soft Dinosaur Tissue, Now from an "80 Million" Year Old Hadrosaur: Consistent with the expectations of biblical creationists, according to Nat'l Geographic, there's yet
another discovery of soft tissue in a dinosaur, this time, a hadrosaur, with soft blood vessels, connective tissue, and blood cell protein amino acid chains partially sequenced at Harvard University. This allegedly 80-million year-old non-fossilized duck-billed dinosaur tissue was discovered by a team led by researchers at North Carolina State University. Harvard, et al., wanted to get some soft dinosaur tissue so they put together a team and just went out and found some. Consider all the potential soft tissue, and perhaps even DNA, lost to humanity because of secular universities ignoring previous claims by young-earth creationists due to the false evolutionary timescale which so biased paleontologists that they would never even look for non-decomposed original biological tissue inside of dinosaur bones.
* Now Biological Material from a "150-Million" Year Old Archaeopteryx: One would think that these "dinosaur-era" finds would be trumpeted as the scientific discovery of our age. But as late as 2012, so many evolutionists whom we talk to at RSR:
1) have never even heard of these developments [Aug. 2013: this is starting to change]
2) initially deny them (
soft-tissue deniers)
3) assume that it must be creationists who claim to have found them, and
4) repeat, as
PZ Myers did when criticizing Real Science Radio, the repeatedly debunked claims that these are not dinosaur tissue but bacterial biofilm contamination.
Now, as cited
below, in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports the discovery of various types of original biological material in archeopteryx feathers and bones that allegedly has
survived for 150 million years.
The New Scientist report,
Soft tissue remnants discovered in Archaeopteryx, put it:
It boasts
more than just... impressions of long-gone feathers. One of the world's most famous fossils...
Archaeopteryx also contains
remnants of the feathers' soft tissue. ... "It's amazing that that chemistry is preserved after 150 million years." ... palaeontologists had long thought that only impressions remained. [But] "There is
soft-tissue chemistry preserved in places that people didn't expect it," says [geochemist Roy] Wogelius. [RSR: Not enough biological material was discovered to call it
tissue but only remnants of tissue.]
* Now Biological Material from a "150-Million" Year Old Archaeopteryx: One would think that these "dinosaur-era" finds would be trumpeted as the scientific discovery of our age. But as late as 2012, so many evolutionists whom we talk to at RSR:
