
Dinosaurs
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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Do We Have Dinosa Blood Cells?
There's been an increasing body of evidence to suggest that soft tissues do preserve on geologic time scales. This has come across against a huge amount of resistance in the community. People just did not believe that you could preserve soft tissues for this sort of length of time. And i was part of a team in two thousand and 15 who we believe that we have ver dinosa blood cells. We cn are i geo chemically with ostrich blad, we were able to cut open the these structures and image them in three, three dimensions at the cellular level. There's no dana in them. So the eldest dna in the fossil record at the moment is about one million years old
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