http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/24/AR2008042402025.html?nav=rss_nation
Protein retrieved from a 68 millon-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex bone closely resembles the main protein in chicken and ostrich bones and is only distantly related to lizards', strengthening the popular idea that birds, and not reptiles, are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs.
The new work builds on a 2007 analysis showing remarkably close similarities between T. rex collagen and collagen from modern-day chickens, but that work did not include comparisons to other living species. Collagen is the primary protein in bones.
Posted by Jvstin at April 25, 2008 5:45 AMPavel Pevzner, director of the Center for Algorithmic and Systems Biology at the University of California at San Diego, said his own research, soon to be published, refutes Asara's work. He said he cannot describe details until they are published, but he was blunt in his response to the new study, which appears in today's issue of the journal Science.
The findings are "a joke," Pevzner wrote in an e-mail. "Serious evolutionary biologists will laugh reading this piece."
One of the biggest 'Problems' with Jurasic Park is that how utterly implausable that DNA could survive 65+ million years. Even in blood, inside a Amberized Mosquito gut.
Posted by: Greg"Jurassic"Weimer at April 25, 2008 12:32 PM