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Dec 2016: Feathered dinosaur tail fragment trapped in amber amazes scientists
FoxNews.com ^ | December 09, 2016 | Rob Verger

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amber; birds; cretaceous; dinosaurs; feathers; godsgravesglyphs; lookbackinamber; paleontology
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To: sodpoodle

Yep. :)


41 posted on 04/15/2017 3:34:38 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: ETL

“..dating 99 million years ago”

Bullocks, no evidence earth is millions of years old. Is this the old isotopes game based on the assumptions of the amount in the atmosphere, rate of decay and environment of the subject? Live penguins, snails and recent volcanic eruptions were “dated” thousands of years old from the evolution religious mafia who need that time frame for their phony theory.


42 posted on 04/15/2017 3:37:33 PM PDT by TheBigJ
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To: 31R1O

It’s coming back to me, now. I should’ve paid more attention in school versus passing notes and socializing. ;)


43 posted on 04/15/2017 3:38:49 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: The Red Pill

Yes, I was just being silly.


44 posted on 04/15/2017 3:39:48 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Sharknado?


45 posted on 04/15/2017 3:40:11 PM PDT by nevergore
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To: JimSEA

“We are actually quite different although genetically “related” in that no other animal is as close.”

We’ve come a long way, Baby! ;)


46 posted on 04/15/2017 3:41:02 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: nevergore

That would put me over the edge, for sure!


47 posted on 04/15/2017 3:41:37 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: ETL

100 million year-old soft tissue.

And no one blinks.


48 posted on 04/15/2017 3:44:33 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (https://medium.com/@Cernovich/here-is-the-full-60-minutes-interview-transcript-with-mike-cernovich-a)
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To: trisham
Cool.

Groovy and neat-o too.

49 posted on 04/15/2017 3:45:52 PM PDT by ytrebil
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To: DaxtonBrown

Bonehead!

J/K

CC


50 posted on 04/15/2017 3:48:08 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Meet the New Boss

Societies cultures around the world have inscriptions drawings of dinosaurs, so they were clearly not living “millions” of years ago or the lava or asteroid theory. The word dinosaur did not exist til 1841, they were called dragons and clearly lived among ancient societies in an environment climate much different from modern day. The Bible mentions flying beasts, the leviathan, a behemoth.


51 posted on 04/15/2017 3:48:35 PM PDT by TheBigJ
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To: ETL

We’re surrounded by dinosaurs. There’s one singing outside my window.

CC


52 posted on 04/15/2017 3:51:07 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

That we have. Now I have to go so my wife can groom my hair.


53 posted on 04/15/2017 3:59:37 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Celtic Conservative
We’re surrounded by dinosaurs. There’s one singing outside my window.

Barney?
54 posted on 04/15/2017 4:04:03 PM PDT by jjsheridan5
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To: jjsheridan5

Yep. I shot the little purple bastard.

CC


55 posted on 04/15/2017 4:20:44 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: odawg

A scientist said that the T-Rex was probably a road-runner from hell.


Good description.


56 posted on 04/15/2017 4:27:17 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

If we didn’t, who would be ferals?


57 posted on 04/15/2017 4:30:23 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: ETL

I wouldn’t want to be home alone when that creature comes to get his tailypo back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-f9PDmCY78


58 posted on 04/15/2017 4:45:51 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( rent this space)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Good for you. But remember, he cannot die. He is federally funded. Hopefully you caused him pain, however.


59 posted on 04/15/2017 4:49:51 PM PDT by jjsheridan5
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

The ICE AGE put all of us ‘white people’ in the far northern regions isolated from the heat-loving ‘not’ white people.

We had to hunt, form communities, fight invasive ‘others’ and etc.

The human genome shows that the hated ‘white’ race is about 50,000 years divergent from the others.

Science is really a difficult idea to explain to ‘them’.

Dey go by feelins...


60 posted on 04/15/2017 4:51:26 PM PDT by Huebolt (The FBI used to be the untouchables.ous.)
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