Baby Bird from Time of Dinosaurs Found Fossilized in Amber

NatGeo ^ | June 7, 2017 | Kristin Romey

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Story is from about a month and a half ago.

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[Jim W N]

Where’s John Hammond?

[Morgana]

You beat me to that comment

[DungeonMaster]

So it’s 5000ish years old.

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[katana]

Couldn't help but notice Nat Geo is still pushing their Anthropomorphic Global Warming nonsense via a video hosted by that noted "scientist", Leo DeCaprio, Before the Flood. Devotees to the hoax aren't very big on irony or humor so I doubt they see either in a title that for most people would evoke images of Noah, the Ark, and Creationist explanations of the fossil record.

[Timpanagos1]

“So it’s 5000ish years old.”

The last thing he heard was “That Ark has sailed.”

[KC_Lion]

[rfp1234]

I like the jackalope next to the truck.

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The extinct gekko Yantarogekko balticus in 44 million year old
baltic amber

While most people think of insects preserved in amber in very rare instances larger animals including small reptiles have been preserved.

https://www.tumblr.com/search/fossilized%20amber

[shanover]

Where’s John Hammond?

That is funny and my first thought.

I would like to think we could bring back endangered species one day but totally understand the ramifications and unforeseen problems with doing so.

[MeganC]

Thank you for posting this! Most informative!

Also, how sad for that little bird to drown in the tar from a tree!

[Tucker39]

I was especially impressed with the horrendous TEETH of this toothed bird. NOT! Looking at the artist’s rendering of how the actual bird may’ve looked, I see a very ordinary beak. No jaw bones. No gingiva. No structure to support teeth. Pure whimsy.

[JustaTech]

There seems to be a common idea that contemporary birds are “descendants” of the dinosaurs, however that could work. Actually, birds were already here when the dinosaurs ruled 65 million years ago.

We may be impressed at the age of the Earth, but it’s a newcomer compared to the age of the Milky Way galaxy. Metal-rich rocky planets in Goldilocks zones existed billions of years earlier than the Earth. Presuming life developed on one or more of them as it did on Earth, that means there were other civilizations at least as advanced as we are now, very, very long ago.

Consider for a moment how the pace of our technological advancement is continually accelerating, and then extend that into the future a couple of billion years or so. Consider the staggering implications for everything we see, and everything we are.

[Inyo-Mono]

Interesting! Thanks for posting.

[Two Kids' Dad]

Sparrowasaurus

[faucetman]

99 million years? Says WHO? The earth is only “thousands” of years old according to GOD and REAL science.

[robroys woman]

...when it was enveloped in sticky tree resin ...

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How does such a thing happen? That sounds like the more significant story here.