Dinosaur Feathers Discovered in Canadian Amber

io9 ^ | 9/15/2013 | Analee Newitz

[Mike Darancette]

Pictures of Dinofuzz at Source.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

AMBER ALERT!
Worst website I’ve ever seen. They need to clean off all the advertising crap that overlays the main story.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

The old “birds” in Congress really are dinosaurs.

We need to make them politically extinct.

[JSteff]

LOL.. I used to have that same discussion with my dog.

[Paladin2]

My dog would love to p0wne geese, especially as it is now migratory season.

(She should get a job with the geese chasers hired by the city to minimize the "output" of their presence in the grassy areas of the river parks.)

The swans are the ones she needs to learn to avoid.

[JSteff]

"My dog would love to p0wne geese, "
My dog caught a crow in flight.. actually as it was taking off after it had stood on the ground making noise at her. After that is was a game to her when other crows landed in the park when she was there.. soon none would land in the park ever.

[MaxMax]

I knew it, they did taste like chicken.

[Paladin2]

"none would land in the park ever. "

Nothing like educational lesson.

[Paladin2]

Given that this dog has caught a chipmunk (given a "drop it" command by my son, it escaped unscathed) and killed a couple of in-the-yard ground hogs, she would likely be successful in acquiring geese and ducks on public property.

There are Laws against that I believe, so she must be restrained.

[freebilly]

Feathers in amber from the late Cretaceous— birds. Feathers from the Jurassic— Therapods....

[BigCinBigD]

I don't have any...Feathers!

[JSteff]

And all poor smokey wanted to do was make the bad crows an obedient part of her “herd”. Smokey tried to herd everything, other dog's the neighbors, geese on the lake at a state park near us... that would have been cute except it was 14 degrees with a wind chill on top... smokey was way out in the lake and I said to my wife the old star trek line “It looks like she's dead jim”... but she survived and we had to carry her to the car for the trip home.... I really did not think dogs shivered that much.. but learned different on that day.

[Hugin]

T-Rex was gay? I guess we now know why they went extinct.

[sr4402]

Where is the dinosaur connected to these feathers? Or a piece of a ‘dinosaur’?

[Paleo Conservative]

DINOSAUR FEATHERS!

[R. Scott]

I knew farmers who used them as guard dogs. No training required.

[Salamander]

Yup.

Nasty critters.

My gander would attack me every time I collected the eggs one of the girls was brooding pointlessly.

I found it [painfully] funny because I knew him but I can easily imagine someone not raised on a farm freaking out.

They ‘karate chop’ you with the leading edge of their wings.

Works pretty good, really,

;]

[R. Scott]

The first time my late wife encountered one she freaked. The goose left the farm family and me alone but went after her, beating her with its wings and hitting with its beak.
She only picked up a few bruises and the attack lasted less than a minute but the sight of her running around the yard screaming brought some laughs.

[Lazamataz]

HORSEFEATHERS!

Oh, wait....

[Salamander]

I loved my geese but they were real jerks.

The gander was useless for breeding.

One girl laid eggs in the other girl’s nest and then went off cavorting while the other one faithfully sat on those infertile eggs *forever*.

Every year I had to spend a month getting the eggs from under her else she’d sit there on an insanely large pile and starve to death while the other two partied.

My goats are a lot less aggravation.

:)

[schaef21]

How do they know these are from dinosaurs? Just curious.