Re: T. rex flesh may just be bacterial sludge

[Gautam Majumdar <gmajumdar@freeuk.com>]

On Thursday 31 July 2008 16:43:34 S.Green wrote:
> from a Scientific American report of July 30th:
>
> *Mary Schweitzer* stands by her findings that her team had found the
> soft tissue of a Tyrannosaurus Rex in a 70-million-year-old fossil
> recovered from a fossilized bone unearthed in Montana in 2005.
>
> But, researchers led by Thomas Kaye, from the University of Washington
> in Seattle, report that slimy bacterial colonies called biofilms mimic
> those fleshy residues.*
>
> *goto:
>
> http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=presumed-dinosaur-f
>lesh-may-just-be-2008-07-30&sc=rss

Here is the original article in PLoS

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0002808

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gautam