https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/27/ancient-soft-parts-dinosaur-an/ Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:33:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/27/ancient-soft-parts-dinosaur-an/#comment-7255 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:33:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/27/ancient-soft-parts-dinosaur-an/#comment-7255 I have gone through by your article its nice but some extent i got confusion. But over all it is good.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/27/ancient-soft-parts-dinosaur-an/#comment-7254 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:49:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/27/ancient-soft-parts-dinosaur-an/#comment-7254 Just to make sure I’m understanding this correctly. The cited studies show that T-Rex is definitely genetically linked to Turkey’s and Chickens? A not so missing link of sorts.How would a creationist/IDiot spin this?

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/04/27/ancient-soft-parts-dinosaur-an/#comment-7253 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:46:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/04/27/ancient-soft-parts-dinosaur-an/#comment-7253 I didn’t think the short communication was that impressive to being with, and I don’t want to downplay the fact that the proteins that were extracted turned out to be useful, but in doing a little digging I found out why this didn’t seem brand new; a paper out in Science almost exactly one year ago made the same Tyrannosaurus-chicken connection and caused nearly identical popular articles to the ones we’re seeing now to appear.As I wrote over at my own blog, if the point of the 1-page communication was to say “Ancient preserved collagen can be useful” I would have liked to see something a little more substantive and some better resolution in the phylogenetic tree.

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