Two scientists at London’s Imperial College carefully examined eight Cretaceous dinosaur bones discovered in North America, scrutinizing the bones’ interiors with an electron microscope. The researchers were stunned when they discovered what appeared to be red blood cells in one of the specimens. Upon closer examination, the British scientists identified an internal structure within the dinosaur cells, complete with nuclei and amino acids. Then, in addition to the blood cells, the scientists discovered excellently-preserved collagen, which is a common soft tissue. This news was first published in July 2015.
The discovery of well-preserved blood and proteins in a supposedly 75-million-year-old dinosaur fossil has stumped secular scientists. “It has long been accepted that protein molecules decay in relatively short periods of time and cannot be preserved for longer than 4 million years,” the researchers noted. They described the discovery of preserved blood cells and soft tissue as unprecedented and “very exciting.”
The picture shows mineralised fibres of collagen from the ribs of a dinosaur which the team found in the Natural History Museum in London. The fossils had been sitting there for just over a hundred years, having been dug up in Alberta, Canada.
The researchers, Sergio Bertazzo and Susannah Maidment, presented their studies in Nature Communications, saying, “This is just the first step in this research.”
Further study revealed blood from a therapod claw. Maidment, a paleontologist, suggested further examination to ensure the blood had not come accidentally from the handling of the specimens, and without going into details, their study proved the genuineness of Dinosaur blood.
Anjali Goswami, a paleontologist at University College London, said that if dinosaur soft tissues were found in many more fossils, it could have a transformative effect on research. “If we can expand the data we have on soft tissues, from fossils that are poorly preserved, that has real implications for our understanding of life in deep time,” she said.
But intact soft tissue had been spotted in dinosaur fossils before, most famously by Mary Schweitzer at North Carolina State University, who in 2005 found flexible, transparent collagen in the fossilised leg of a Tyrannosaurus Rex specimen.
We read that “protein molecules decay in relatively short periods of time and cannot be preserved for longer than 4 million years.” But what does this mean? How can 4 million years be considered a relatively short period of time? When scientists persist in referring to everything in terms of millions of years they destroy the very evidence that stares them in the face.
Furthermore, even if we think in terms of their own timetable, they have virtually reduced the age of the dinosaurs from 70 million to just 4 million years, which gets near to their considered time for the emergence of man.
What has transpired from the findings of Mary Schweitzer in 2005, and Bertazzo and Maidment in 2015? Has there been a major reconstruction of fossil history? No. For this to happen there would have to be a major earthquake in scientific thinking.
But those who believe that all life forms were created some 6,000 years ago, no problems arise from such interesting findings from research.
