Jurrasic Park around the corner?

[Sgt. Boomer]

Carbon dating may be good, but it’s hardly infallible. And scientific advances frequently overturn older theories. Remember the flap about Neanderthal Man a few months ago?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196571/posts

“Professor Reiner Protsch von Zieten showed that Neanderthal Man existed in northern Europe. Calculations on skeletal remains found at Hahnofersand, near Hamburg, stated they were 36,000 years old.
Yet recent research at Oxford University\'s carbon-dating laboratory has suggested that they date back a mere 7,500 years. By that time, Homo sapiens was already well-established and the Neanderthals were extinct.”

“Another apparent misdating involved an allegedly prehistoric skull discovered near Paderborn in 1976 and considered the oldest human remain ever found in the region. Prof von Zieten dated the skull at 27,400 years old. The latest research, however, indicates that it belonged to an elderly man who died around 1750.
Germany\'s Herne anthropological museum, which owns the Paderborn skull, was so disturbed by the findings that it did its own tests. \"We had the skull cut open and it still smelt,\" the museum\'s director, Barbara Ruschoff-Thale, said last week. \"We are naturally very disappointed.\"”


( Sorry if I beat you to it Pun )