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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Yep. :)
“..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.
It’s coming back to me, now. I should’ve paid more attention in school versus passing notes and socializing. ;)
Yes, I was just being silly.
Sharknado?
“We are actually quite different although genetically “related” in that no other animal is as close.”
We’ve come a long way, Baby! ;)
That would put me over the edge, for sure!
100 million year-old soft tissue.
And no one blinks.
Groovy and neat-o too.
Bonehead!
J/K
CC
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.
We’re surrounded by dinosaurs. There’s one singing outside my window.
CC
That we have. Now I have to go so my wife can groom my hair.
Yep. I shot the little purple bastard.
CC
A scientist said that the T-Rex was probably a road-runner from hell.
Good description.
If we didn’t, who would be ferals?
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
Good for you. But remember, he cannot die. He is federally funded. Hopefully you caused him pain, however.
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...
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