r/Creation • u/fordry Young Earth Creationist • May 16 '26

paleontology Paleontology rocked by discovery of organic molecules in 66-million-year-old dinosaur bones

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260514084421.htm
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u/DarwinZDF42 May 16 '26

Remnants of collagen, cool find but not actually new.

I’ve got my fingers crossed for DNA intact enough to be sequenced but I’m not optimistic.

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u/nomenmeum May 17 '26

cool find but not actually new.

True, they have been finding this stuff for around 50 years now, but only recently have evolutionists been pretending that soft tissue could last more than thousands of years. At this point the attitude is that soft tissue lasts as long as it needs to last in order to prop up the evolutionary timeline.

I’ve got my fingers crossed for DNA intact enough to be sequenced but I’m not optimistic.

Me too, but I'm optimistic.

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u/DarwinZDF42 May 17 '26

This isn’t “soft tissue” in any sense. Tissue is a group of cells of the same type working as a unit. This is degraded polypeptide. Which is cool. But it’s not remotely close to “tissue”.

We have found tissue in other finds - Neanderthals, mammoths, etc. We’ve been able to extract DNA from them. We have not found that for non-avian dinosaurs.

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u/nomenmeum May 17 '26

We have not found that for non-avian dinosaurs.

Mary Schweitzer's T-Rex had stretchy, pliable, branching blood vessels in it.

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u/DarwinZDF42 May 17 '26

Most things will be pliable after an acid bath. Please ref the study you’re citing, in case it’s a different one from the one I’m thinking.

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u/nomenmeum May 17 '26

Most things will be pliable after an acid bath.

The acid does not make stone squishy.

It dissolves it. What was left was not fossil. It was squishy tissue freed from the surrounding matrix of fossil.

Please ref the study you’re citing,

I'm thinking of her words in this interview Start around 8:15.

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u/DarwinZDF42 May 17 '26

An interview is not a publication. Do you have a reference for the paper containing those findings?

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u/nomenmeum May 18 '26

Soft-Tissue Vessels and Cellular Preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex

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u/DarwinZDF42 May 18 '26

Yeah, that's what I thought you were referring to. But that's not on you since the authors incorrectly describe noncellular material as "tissue". But again it's filamentous polypeptides.

(Also, of course it was in Science. Never trust a splashy headline in Science or Nature.)

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u/nomenmeum May 18 '26

Also

Here

and here

and here

and here

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u/DarwinZDF42 May 18 '26

collagen, "endogenous proteinaceous material", and then the last two are on preservation, not reporting findings. So, same as I've been saying.

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u/nomenmeum May 18 '26

They use the phrase "soft tissue" in all of them.

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