According to the passage, scientists are researching animal tissues on fossils, but investigating actual animal tissues is difficult because of the actual tissues replaced by minerals. A newfound t-rex fossil made scientists excited because they are thinking by some evidence that this fossil can contain natural tissues. The professor is approaching skeptical to these evidences and presents examples to refute them.
First of all, the author says an organic and soft substance found in the hollows of t-rex’s leg bone could be blood vessels. However, the lecturer disagrees that it may be another compound and gives, for example, bacterias. Moist and blood-filled hollows are a good place for bacterial colonization. Bacteria that lived inside the bone seems like soft tissue.
Second, the text claims the reddish minerals are iron-filled areas that indicate blood cells in the fossil because blood cells contain iron. In contrast, the professor dismisses that claim, and she thinks these irons could be part of primitive organisms settled in animals’ bones. Microscopic analyses show this mineral has different origins.
Furthermore, the author says something explored in the fossils could be collagen. But on the other hand, the lecture refutes this because T-rex fossil is 70-million years old and the collagen can not last longer than 100. 000 years. Even though it was collagen, this substance can not belong to the T-rex, it could be a human’s collagen.
According to the passage, scientists are researching animal
tissues
on
fossils
,
but
investigating actual animal
tissues
is difficult
because
of the actual
tissues
replaced by minerals. A newfound
t-rex
fossil
made scientists excited
because
they are thinking by
some
evidence that this
fossil
can contain natural
tissues
. The professor is approaching skeptical to these evidences and presents examples to refute them.
First of all
, the author says an organic and soft substance found in the hollows of
t-rex
’s leg bone could be blood vessels.
However
, the lecturer disagrees that it may be another compound and gives,
for example
,
bacterias
. Moist and blood-filled hollows are a
good
place for bacterial colonization. Bacteria that
lived
inside the bone seems like soft tissue.
Second, the text claims the reddish minerals are iron-filled areas that indicate blood cells in the
fossil
because
blood cells contain iron.
In contrast
, the professor dismisses that claim, and she
thinks
these irons could be part of primitive organisms settled in animals’ bones. Microscopic analyses
show
this mineral has
different
origins.
Furthermore
, the author says something explored in the
fossils
could be collagen.
But
on the other hand
, the lecture refutes this
because
T-rex
fossil
is 70-million years
old
and the collagen can not last longer than 100. 000 years.
Even though
it was collagen, this substance can not belong to the
T-rex
, it could be a human’s collagen.