Posted on 11/04/2015 12:41:20 PM PST by sparklite2
The remains of an ostrich-like creature with preserved feathers and soft tissue is shedding light on how dinosaurs used their plumage and further strengthens the linkages between these ancient beasts and modern birds.
A paleontology student at the University of Alberta discovered the 75 million-year-old skeleton of an Ornithomimus dinosaur in the Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta - one of only three feathered specimens found in the world. And while the feathers on the specimen were crushed, the researchers were surprised to see how similar they were to modern ostriches or emus.
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When Birds RULED THE EARTH
I thought that every heard about the bird. Because you know...Bird is the word.
I thought Larry Bird retired a while back.
Dinosaurs ... in “transition.”
“... with preserved feathers and soft tissue ...”
Sincere question: How can feathers and “soft tissue” survive 75 million years?
That’s gonna take BIG can of cranberry sauce....
Oooo mau mau...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9Gc4QTqslN4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcguLZaMelE&feature=player_embedded
See? You knew Bird was the word. Imagine the money these fool scientists spent finding it out when they simply had to come to you for the answer.
Jennersaurs
Looks like the Jurassic Park franchise needs to redo the Ornithomimus.
The kids these days are into zombies. Time to discover a new dinosaur.
What ever happened to him? Once he was out, he evaporated.
“Ornithomimus.”
“What? What was that, Lassie?”
“Ornithomimus.”
“Dammit. I wish you’d learn to bark like other dogs.
At this rate, we’ll never find Timmy.”
I think we just ate that for supper
That must be some kind of tissue...to last millions of years. LOL!!
From other remains found in the same Park...
To the scientists’ astonishment, however, analysis with an electron microscope revealed what appeared to be red blood cells and collagen fibers that had remained intact over some 75 million years of fossilization.
Unlike bones and teeth, which can survive for hundreds of millions of years, soft tissues are among the first materials to disappear during the fossilization process. Even so, scientists have found intact soft tissue in dinosaur bones before. The most famous case dates to 2005, when Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University found collagen fibers in the fossilized leg bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex. But such discoveries are rare, and have previously occurred only with extremely well preserved fossils. The most extraordinary thing about the new find, which scientists from Imperial College London reported this week in the journal Nature Communications, is that the fossils they examined are of relatively poor condition (to put it kindly).
http://www.history.com/news/scientists-find-soft-tissue-in-75-million-year-old-dinosaur-bones
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