(June 8, 2025 at 9:39 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote:(June 7, 2025 at 11:06 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: What part of "They want to but don't have anything like enough material" did you miss? If it was possible it would have been done. You can't carbon date individual cells. Nowhere near enough mass.
The fact that you think stuff is locked up in the fossil simply shows that you don't know what you're talking about. They had to dissolve the fossil to release the "blood cells".
the connective tissue found in the fossils are rather meaty and have lots of carbons
Citation? I'm not seeing anything that's large enough for a positive identification as to the type of tissue, or even that the cells are actually cells using very powerful microscopes. They've tried to extract DNA but have had zero success, even when trying to find fragments.
