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News From Tuesday, July 29, 2008
9:59:20 PM Did Dinosaur Soft Tissues Still Survive
Science Daily (press release) - USA

ScienceDaily (July 29, 2008) — Paleontologists in 2005 hailed research that apparently showed that soft, pliable tissues had been recovered from dissolved ... [more]

7:16:06 PM New study has a bone to pick about dinosaur soft tissue
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

"They have single handedly pioneered the use of sophisticated chemical analysis and have created a critical bridge between biology and paleontology," he ... [more]

7:08:45 PM Tissue or slime? Scientists battle over T. rex find
Canada.com - Canada

The discovery was made by a team led by paleontologist Mary Schweitzer, at North Carolina State University, who had dissolved fragments of T. rex bone in ... [more]

6:19:37 PM Ancient Dinosaur Flesh Really Just Slime, Say Scientists
Wired Blogs - USA

The remnants were found three years ago in a 70 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil by North Carolina State University paleontologist Mary Schweitzer. ... [more]

5:23:15 PM Soft tissue in fossils still mysterious
Science News - USA

Rather than dissolving fossil fragments and analyzing the residue, Thomas G. Kaye, a paleontologist at the University of Washington’s Burke Museum of ... [more]

5:23:15 PM Scientists question dinosaur soft tissue find
Reuters UK - UK

But paleontologist Thomas Kaye of the University of Washington in Seattle challenges this idea and says he has seen similar structures and shown them to be ... [more]

3:39:18 PM Unearthing Idaho Part 1
KPVI-TV - Pocatello,ID,USA

Bill Akersten is the curator of vertebrae paleontology. He works with the items on the display floor, but also the items in the basement unseen by the ... [more]

1:31:52 PM Why US parks put land purchases on hold
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA

“The Twin Buttes ranch is a Rosetta stone for paleontology,” says David Gillette, curator of paleontology at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff. ... [more]

9:16:25 AM Scientists Track Dino Footprints
Tothecenter.com - Malverne,NY,USA

In an area of Utah known as the Moccasin Mountain track, paleontologists covered the terrain by taking photos from a helicopter mounted with a special ... [more]



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