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Originally posted by: Iron Woode
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They stumbled on a way to get cells from a 60 million old fossil.
actually they never did. You implied that's how they will recreate dinosaurs.
sorry if I missunderstood.
http://www.ncsu.edu/news/press_releases/05_03/075.htm
But the team was surprised by what actually happened when they removed the minerals from the T. rex femur fragment. The removal process left behind stretchy bone matrix material that, when examined microscopically, seemed to show blood vessels, osteocytes, or bone building cells, and other recognizable organic features.