Long considered the alpha dog of the dinosaurs, the Tyrannosaurus rex has lost some of its cool factor in recent years. I blame Jurassic Park's glorification of the velociraptor. Sure, the T. rex wins in the end, but it's definitely not crafty enough to open a kitchen door. Then two of them suffered an embarrassing defeat at the hands of a giant gorilla in that Peter Jackson crapfest. But since the revelation that velociraptors were really nothing more than vicious, fluffy chickens, T. rex is poised for a comeback. Now scientists have recovered soft tissue from the thigh bone of a T. rex. MSNBC's story on the matter is all about the exciting chance for protein isolation this tissue affords. Yawn. I want me some T. rex clones, and I want them now.
Monday, October 15, 2007
The Softer Side of T. Rex
