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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: ETL

How do they know it’s not a ostrich or emu?


81 posted on 04/15/2017 7:30:50 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Celtic Conservative

Yeah, that was record breaking lame.


82 posted on 04/15/2017 8:27:28 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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To: ETL

What I don’t understand about this dinosaur/bird thing is a birds legs are a concave shape and dinosaurs( the theropods type pictured here) are convex. Whats up with that?


83 posted on 04/15/2017 8:39:33 PM PDT by jmacusa (Dad may be in charge but mom knows whats going on.)
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To: minnesota_bound

Same reason we have southerners and the Irish.
They are still evolving..... : )

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AHHHHAHHAHAHHA VERY FUNNY i hope a tornado throws a doublewide on you when you and your wooly mammoth when you go outside your cave


84 posted on 04/15/2017 8:40:30 PM PDT by angryoldfatman
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To: ETL

And from what I understand cats share 14% of the same DNA we do.


85 posted on 04/15/2017 8:42:31 PM PDT by jmacusa (Dad may be in charge but mom knows whats going on.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Thanks. Now, can you explain what my Neanderthal ex-husband evolved from?

You do not want to got there my friend. :)

86 posted on 04/15/2017 8:54:23 PM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. CONSTITUTUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: ETL

Marvelous find!


87 posted on 04/15/2017 9:15:39 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: The Red Pill
Both monkeys and humans evolved from a common ancestor.

That's right unless you believe humans began, looking just as they are today, in the Garden of Eden 6,000 years ago.

88 posted on 04/15/2017 9:21:29 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: ASA Vet
You grew up prior to 1920?

That's when it was first proposed by a [then considered] nutcase. Yeah...the 97% blew him off.

From Wikipedia:

David Attenborough, who attended university in the second half of the 1940s, recounted an incident illustrating its lack of acceptance then: "I once asked one of my lecturers why he was not talking to us about continental drift and I was told, sneeringly, that if I could prove there was a force that could move continents, then he might think about it. The idea was moonshine, I was informed.
It started to gain adherents in some circles in the 50's (I was born in '52) but I was flat out told by my elementary school teacher that my theory that South America looked like it could fit into Africa (a theory held by every child that ever looked at a globe) was wrong and it was "just a coincidence".

It was not until 1968 that it became the dominate thought.

Just remember that when Global Warmists pound you over the head about "settled science" and the 97% "consensus".

89 posted on 04/15/2017 10:05:55 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: sodpoodle
I wish I had taken this subject in school- it is so fascinating.

As a geology major in the 80s I worked as an assistant for an invertebrate paleontologist. Not as interesting a field as vertebrate paleontology, IMO, but still fascinating, as it also involved paleogeography (continental drift/ Plate Tectonics).

90 posted on 04/16/2017 3:29:32 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal: details at my FR home page)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Remember these old bumper stickers? Stop Plate Tectonics, Now!

How the bumper stickers and t-shirts that read "Reunite Pangea".

91 posted on 04/16/2017 3:34:40 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal: details at my FR home page)
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To: JoeProBono

Silkie chicken!


92 posted on 04/16/2017 3:37:29 AM PDT by piasa
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To: JimSEA
The last common ancestor between humans and the great apes lived some seven million years ago. We are actually quite different although genetically “related” in that no other animal is as close.

As I mentioned earlier, our DNA is 98% or greater the same as a chimpanzee. We and they are genetically closer than they are to gorillas.

93 posted on 04/16/2017 3:45:35 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal: details at my FR home page)
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To: Celtic Conservative
We’re surrounded by dinosaurs. There’s one singing outside my window.

One crapped on my head around a week ago while I was sitting on a park bench.

94 posted on 04/16/2017 3:52:58 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal: details at my FR home page)
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To: Flick Lives
A scientist said that the T-Rex was probably a road-runner from hell. Good description.

Not really. Based on their anatomy it isn't very likely that they could run very fast. Unlike an Ostrich their thigh bones were too long in comparison to their shin bones. Also, with their tiny arms, they would have had a very difficult time getting back up if they fell.

95 posted on 04/16/2017 4:02:56 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal: details at my FR home page)
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To: Reily

Ok, fine. Take me from nothing (primordial soup) to these complex creates. Also, recreate that process in a lab.


96 posted on 04/16/2017 4:21:33 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

It really is miraculous how life arose from subatomic matter, even the simplest of life forms. There apparently is a lot more going on in the bizarre realm of quantum mechanics that we know and likely can never know.


97 posted on 04/16/2017 4:46:46 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal: details at my FR home page)
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To: ETL
There apparently is a lot more going on in the bizarre realm of quantum mechanics that we know and likely can never know.

SO any discussion of creationism vs evolution must be put on the shelf until first life is explained. Evolution will always be a theory, with lots of holes in it.

98 posted on 04/16/2017 4:54:53 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I decided against mounts a while ago.

Eventually they become dust catchers, and they take up quiet a bit of space.

Beau is right. They are expensive!

Some utility can be gained from a rug, but mostly, I decided to opt for digital pictures.

They do not take up space are easy to transport, and you can give away as many as you want!

Maybe a big blow-up picture from the hunt could greet visitors.

Congrats to Beau on a great trophy.


99 posted on 04/16/2017 5:47:26 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: angryoldfatman

I am from “southern” Minnesota and am part Irish.
Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Irish and French.
I apologize for the French part but she got the Irish ancestor drunk and here I am.


100 posted on 04/16/2017 6:16:42 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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