Comments on: T. rex Trouble http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/08/25/t-rex-trouble/ A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:51:30 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Beth Shapiro http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/08/25/t-rex-trouble/comment-page-1/#comment-9240 Beth Shapiro Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:55:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/08/25/t-rex-trouble/#comment-9240 I'd like to point out that this is isn't the first reply (in opposition) to the recent dino DNA/protein work, nor is it the first dino DNA study to be criticized by the scientific community. Indeed, such antics have been captivating the field since the early 1990s, when "ancient DNA" was at its innocent beginnings... http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/319/5859/33c (although admittedly not as approachable as Dalton's intriguing piece) and some older stuff: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9C00EFD61331F93BA25752C1A962958260 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15020302.800-science--dinosaur-dna-fails-new-test-of-time.html I’d like to point out that this is isn’t the first reply (in opposition) to the recent dino DNA/protein work, nor is it the first dino DNA study to be criticized by the scientific community. Indeed, such antics have been captivating the field since the early 1990s, when “ancient DNA” was at its innocent beginnings…

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/319/5859/33c (although admittedly not as approachable as Dalton’s intriguing piece)

and some older stuff:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9C00EFD61331F93BA25752C1A962958260
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15020302.800-science–dinosaur-dna-fails-new-test-of-time.html

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