Itoero Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 How does iron preserving works? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itoero Posted July 16, 2018 Author Share Posted July 16, 2018 I read how it probably works. When a dino dies its blood decomposes and releases iron from hemoglobine. When the iron spread through tissue and bone it initiated crosslinking. The soft tissue most affected by the crosslinking would be preserved for a long period of time. Soft tissue that was crosslinked and sealed safely inside a hard bone, could survive for millions of years...until the present day. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/scientists-retrieve-80-million-year-old-dinosaur-protein-milestone-paper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharonY Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 The article refers to preservation of a protein. I.e. biomolecule, not tissue. In this case it depends on precipitation of the protein, though it is still not clear how that alone could preserve the proteins for the indicated amount of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itoero Posted July 18, 2018 Author Share Posted July 18, 2018 Thx for the explanation. Young earth creationists often use this to pretend that dinosaurs lived 6000 years ago and are not as old as science says they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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