fossilman1
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Post by fossilman1 on Jul 22, 2009 8:45:37 GMT -5
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Post by Hard Rock Cafe on Jul 22, 2009 12:30:30 GMT -5
It's extremely unlikely because soft tissue nearly always decays (and rapidly). However, if the conditions are just right, I suppose it could happen. It'll be interesting to hear what scientists say.
Chuck
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agatemaggot
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Post by agatemaggot on Jul 22, 2009 17:07:20 GMT -5
It would take a heck of a good set of circumstances to petrify a piece of soft tissue like that , but, what the heck, they just uncovered a Dino with the skin on it !!!
Harley
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free4rms
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Post by free4rms on Jul 23, 2009 12:52:29 GMT -5
This guy obviously has no idea what he is talking about and is making up the details as he goes along, just to avoid the fact that he is wrong in the first place.
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 23, 2009 17:47:43 GMT -5
Yup, Looks vaguely and I mean vaguely like a heart. Colored a bit like a heart, but merely a case of a guy with a good imagination....Mel
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Post by johnjsgems on Jul 24, 2009 2:02:47 GMT -5
Reminds me a little of a guy last year at Clouds show. He found a fossil dinosaur head along the Colorado River. I couldn't see any semblance of a head of any type. I wanted to explain the typical cell structure seen in dino bone but decided to send him on his way with the recommendation he see a fossil dealer down the row. What ould be the chancesof a heart (deer or otherwise)being out of body and buried in silica rich mud allowing for replacement or buried in hot volcanic ash allowing for a cast?
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jcinpc
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Post by jcinpc on Jul 24, 2009 10:28:11 GMT -5
I think its just a rock
here in Fl there is a site called the Windover site in Titusville on the east coast . in the mid 80`s consrtuction for I95 was going on and while crews were digging a out a peat pond for an off ramp bones and skulls were found in the muck. Cops were called then the State Archs. After the drained some of the area and did their thing, what was discovered was a 8000 years old burial site. The dead were wrapped in linens, 26 strands to the square inch, made out of palmetto fiber, they were then staked down to the bottom of the pond. These remains still have the brains and internal organs in them. The peat lacks oxygen and therefor preserved the bodies, kinda like the bog people ovewrseas, except these are 8000 years old. its an awesome find and still hasnt been fully excavated
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Post by johnjsgems on Jul 24, 2009 14:29:13 GMT -5
Those would be preserved remains. The "heart" is supposed to be a replacement fossil I'm assuming.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jul 28, 2009 9:04:59 GMT -5
Looks like a rock to me too..............  |
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SirRoxalot
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Post by SirRoxalot on Jul 28, 2009 16:08:05 GMT -5
That is one damn funny thread. You have to love folks that try to identify their own finds... like the lady with the agate, who was totally convinced it was petrified bacon... that's comedy gold.
You have to wonder, though. This dude takes a rock to a cardiologist... would he go to a geologist for a prostate exam??? Hahahahahahahahaha.
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docharber
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Post by docharber on Aug 7, 2009 13:30:36 GMT -5
In an oxygen free and acidic environment like a peat bog, where tannins and natural antimicrobials in the peat woulw preserve, not petrify, soft tissues, you might end up with a leathery shrivelled piece of organic material. Remember, though, that dung petrifies quite nicely. I can imagine all those T. rexes seeing that asteroid darkening the sky and crapping out of fear, thats why we have sooo much of the stuff around. This isn't a heart, was never a heart and doesn't have the anatomic details to my inspection that a heart would have. Darn good likeness of one, though.
Mark H.
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maryrod58
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Post by maryrod58 on Jan 2, 2010 22:47:56 GMT -5
Most fossils that resemble a heart are actually internal casts of pelecypods (similar to modern day clams).  |
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joemojave
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Post by joemojave on Jan 3, 2010 6:23:33 GMT -5
Hmmm, I bet if I whipped out the polymer clay I could have myself a few of those too. If I where that guy, I would accept that it is not real (if he even believes that it is) and paint it to look like a heart for a Halloween decoration.
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Post by tkrueger3 on Jan 5, 2010 23:20:49 GMT -5
That thing looks a lot like what my ex-wife ripped out of my chest when she left! Dang! I want it back! ;D
Tom
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MikeS
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Post by MikeS on Jan 7, 2010 18:55:41 GMT -5
I've got a photo of Bigfoot  |
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#10 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's rocks