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Where are the dinosaurs?

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TeddyReceptus

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Joey, does your dinosaur sleep in your bed with you?

Why does Joey have a bed? Are dinosaurs small enough to sleep in a bed? What kind of covers does Joey have on his bed? Do the dinosaurs see in color? Do the dinosaurs like the cover on Joey's bed? Does the bed have a dinosaur indentation in it? Does it look like a dinosaur imprint fossil? (See I brought it around to fossils again!) How long did it take the dinosaur to make that impression? How long is it compared to how long it takes to make a fossil? Can you date Joey's bed clothes by the stains on them? Does the Dinosaur make stains of his own? Is it a he or a she? Does it like to spoon? Are spoons made of metal all the time? Are plastic spoons really spoons if spoons are made of metal? Does metal conduct? Does metal conduct food to my mouth? Are spoons conductors? Does conductivity make dinosaurs good in bed? Do good dinosaurs make better bed time companions? Are beds necessary for dinosaurs to sleep? Are there any YouTube videos of dinosaurs sleeping? Why not? There are? Oh, thanks! Can I get new bedclothes, the dinosaur made a mess. Why are dinosaurs messy? Are messes always made by dinosaurs? Can I make a mess or does it have to be made by a dinosaur? Can I sleep in my mess? Can the dinosaur sleep with me? Will it leave an impression like a spoon? Why not? Can I make spoon-shaped dinosaurs? Are they filled with blood cells? Are blood cells shaped like spoons? Are spoons shaped like blood cells? Which came first? The Spoon or the blood cell or the dinosaur? Did dinosaurs invent spoons? Did they dinosaurs need spoons? Why can't we find any dinosaur age spoon fossils in the rocks? Did Chupacabra use a spoon? Is Loch Ness large enough to have a spoon deposit in the middle? How many spoons are in a Loch Ness? Did Nessie eat the dinosaurs? Did he use a spoon? Can Nessie stay over at my house tonight? Can we all sleep in the bed together? Me? The Dinosaur? Nessie? Can Nessie make a dent in the bedclothes? Will the dinosaur be angry with Nessie? Can Nessie defend itself against the dinosaur? Can the dinosaur eat Nessie? Will it use a spoon? What if it is a Tyrannosaur and can't reach it's mouth with its hands? Will a spoon with a sufficiently long handle be good? Will it be able to support the weight of Nessie without breaking? Will it bend? What is the plastic deformation limit on a spoon of that length?
 
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I think you'll have to say it one more time
And because proteins do all the work in the body, studying them could someday help scientists understand dinosaur physiology—how their muscles and blood vessels worked, for example.
 
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And because proteins do all the work in the body, studying them could someday help scientists understand dinosaur physiology—how their muscles and blood vessels worked, for example.
Makes sense to me.

Then scientists can know all about dinosaur physiology, but no dinosaurs around to physiologize with.

I mean ... they may as well study dinosaur psychology; in case they meet one, they can reintroduce it into society?
 
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i.e not blood cells.
Proteins are much too tiny to pick out with a microscope. To look for them, Schweitzer uses antibodies, immune system molecules that recognize and bind to specific sections of proteins. Schweitzer and Wittmeyer have been using antibodies to chicken collagen, cow elastin and ostrich hemoglobin to search for similar molecules in the dinosaur tissue. At an October 2005 paleontology conference, Schweitzer presented preliminary evidence that she has detected real dinosaur proteins in her specimens.
 
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...so why don't you cite the actual conference proceedings?
 
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...so why don't you cite the actual conference proceedings?
Further discoveries shown that the discovery of soft tissue in B. rex wasn’t just a fluke. Schweitzer and Wittmeyer have now found probable blood vessels, bone-building cells and connective tissue in another T. rex, in a theropod from Argentina and in a 300,000-year-old woolly mammoth fossil. Schweitzer’s work is “showing us we really don’t understand decay,” Holtz says. “There’s a lot of really basic stuff in nature that people just make assumptions about.”
 
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...so why don't you cite the actual conference proceedings?
 
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