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How can soft tissue survive millions and millions of years? Are you telling me you honestly don't think that sounds off somehow?
The T-rex soft tissue find has been widely misunderstood (and misreported on some creationist websites). The soft tissue was fossilized when it was found. The minerals were then carefully removed, and the tissues were then recognizable (though much degraded; last I heard it was hopeful, but not certain, that there might still be some intact proteins to be found). It's possible that many dino fossils that have been previously discovered also contain such fossilized tissues, but paleontologists have generally been reluctant to go breaking open their finds before preserving them.
I've seen this reported on certain websites as if the researchers broke open fossils and found raw meat inside. This is not the case.
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