First Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved In Amber Is 99-Million-Years-Old And Covered In Feathers
While collecting samples in Myanmar last year, paleontologist Lida Xing discovered the first known dinosaur tail preserved in amber, and it has feathers!
The piece of amber is about the size and shape of a dried apricot and captured inside it is a 1.4-inch appendage covered in white and chestnut brown colored feathers. The tail is around 99 million years old, and scientists believe that it belonged to a juvenile coelurosaur, which is part of a group of theropod dinosaurs.
“While individual dinosaur-era feathers have been found in amber, and evidence for feathered dinosaurs is captured in fossil impressions, this is the first time that scientists are able to clearly associate well-preserved feathers with a dinosaur, and in turn gain a better understanding of the evolution and structure of dinosaur feathers,” Kristin Romey wrote on National Geographic.
More info: National Geographic (h/t)
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Why I am crying reading this? Maybe because it is TOO DAMN MF AWESOME?? (Yep, I am a Dinosaur obssesed!)
I slid to the comments to see if anyone else wanted to mention that too. That ant's got pretty long legs...
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yeah and why didn't they take the opportunity to correct that with the damn velociraptors in Jurassic World. Oh wait, i guess they'd have to also correct the fact that they would only be about knee-high to an adult human and it would ruin their scare factor. I guess a feathered bird, ah er. dinosaur, the size of a turkey doesn't sell. GO Hollywood!
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Too cool! I grew up with the image of T-Rex as slow, clumsy tail-dragger. To see all the discoveries we continue to make about dinosaurs makes me happy.
"First," as in the first anyone has found, not the first dinosaur ever.
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I watched a documentary once where this rich man opened a theme park on an island near Costa Rica and felt he could control the dinosaurs through the power of technology. Sadly, due to a power failure, the dinosaurs escaped and ate several people. I feel history is doomed to repeat itself again.
This is evidence that the scientists were right. Now I wonder though if ALL the dinos were feathered or just some of them?
Bit late to the party, Unless this was posted in the 1990's. We knew they had feathers for a while.
Whoops ....doesn't quite cover that in the Quran or bible .....mmmmmm
Isn't this AWESOME?! Isn't it WAY better than the willingful ignorance of creationists and their childish narrative?Science & reality rock!
Why I am crying reading this? Maybe because it is TOO DAMN MF AWESOME?? (Yep, I am a Dinosaur obssesed!)
I slid to the comments to see if anyone else wanted to mention that too. That ant's got pretty long legs...
Load More Replies... yeah and why didn't they take the opportunity to correct that with the damn velociraptors in Jurassic World. Oh wait, i guess they'd have to also correct the fact that they would only be about knee-high to an adult human and it would ruin their scare factor. I guess a feathered bird, ah er. dinosaur, the size of a turkey doesn't sell. GO Hollywood!
Load More Replies... Too cool! I grew up with the image of T-Rex as slow, clumsy tail-dragger. To see all the discoveries we continue to make about dinosaurs makes me happy.
"First," as in the first anyone has found, not the first dinosaur ever.
Load More Replies... I watched a documentary once where this rich man opened a theme park on an island near Costa Rica and felt he could control the dinosaurs through the power of technology. Sadly, due to a power failure, the dinosaurs escaped and ate several people. I feel history is doomed to repeat itself again.
This is evidence that the scientists were right. Now I wonder though if ALL the dinos were feathered or just some of them?
Bit late to the party, Unless this was posted in the 1990's. We knew they had feathers for a while.
Whoops ....doesn't quite cover that in the Quran or bible .....mmmmmm
Isn't this AWESOME?! Isn't it WAY better than the willingful ignorance of creationists and their childish narrative?Science & reality rock!
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