Chicken?
Posted on 04/15/2017 2:35:43 PM PDT by ETL
It’s a discovery that's straight out of “Jurassic Park.” Scientists have found a tiny section of a dinosaur’s tail trapped in amber, and not only that, it has feathers.
Dating to about 99 million years ago, or the mid-Cretaceous period, the amber containing the eight dinosaur vertebrae originally came from Myanmar. While scientists have known since 1996 that some non-avian dinosaurs had feathers, and even suspected that fact 10 years before that, this new find can teach them more about how feathers have evolved over millions of years. The feathered tail in question came from a juvenile dinosaur, likely a small coelurosaur.
"The new material preserves a tail consisting of eight vertebrae from a juvenile; these are surrounded by feathers that are preserved in 3D and with microscopic detail," Ryan McKellar of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Canada, said in a statement. He said the tail "was long and flexible, with keels of feathers running down each side." McKellar is a coauthor on a new study describing the discovery.
The find shows the feathers’ barbs, and the microscopic barbules on them, in incredible detail; the feathers don’t have a well-defined central shaft, or rachis, a fact that tells scientists more about feather evolution. The top part of the tail was darker-- a chestnut brown-- than its underside. The amber even contains remains of soft tissues that have carbonized.
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Chicken?
I think the current thought is that they were carrion eaters.
Big earth bound buzzards.
Note: this topic is from . Thanks ETL.
It doesn't matter if oil and gas are continuing to be created, if we are using them up at a much higher rate than they are being made.
If we are !
To this day, when I see water in a glass start to move, it freaks me out a little.
:D
Aha!
The fabled saber-toothed chicken!
I still have a hard time wrapping my brain around the idea of feathered dinosaurs. I am so used to seeing them depicted as giant lizards. But, there it is.
Figures that they wouldn't be hypoallergenic.
More important how did the seed/spore or whatever know it needed specific nutrients to survive and grow at all,
much less, hmm, gonna need more energy that just this heat and on and on in the design phase of identifying need, environmental elements and deriving a solution?
Lots of data necessary as well as the need to process said data no matter how simple the organism.
In the beginning was the WORD....
There is no way to get to a single cell organism from nothing by “accident”.
When I was growing up there was no such thing as “scientific consensus”. That didn’t get invented till the modern liberal.
I like what Max Planck said: "Science advances one funeral at a time".
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