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Dinosaur Feathers Found !
Preserved in amber, from 100m years back. 1st time ever. In just a few years, we've gone from ''reptile -like skins'', to ''possibly they had feathers'', to direct proof.
I got this off bbc news, but should be on most news sources. |
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*hums Jurassic Park theme*
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I was just this minute reading about this, part of a tail found in amber.
Found in Myanmar the feathers look a bit like ostrich feathers |
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Over 100 years of book illustrations and sci fi films completely wrong,
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Over 100 years of book illustrations and sci fi films completely wrong,
Does anyone find it amazing they did this in the 1920's? https://youtu.be/l7vcKwmMzXA?t=1h26m28s |
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I believe that this would be a good place to indulge my obsession with the archaeopteryx.....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Archaeopteryx |
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Preserved in amber, from 100m years back. 1st time ever. In just a few years, we've gone from ''reptile -like skins'', to ''possibly they had feathers'', to direct proof.
I got this off bbc news, but should be on most news sources. http://dinogoss.blogspot.co.uk/2016/...rs-in-art.html The trouble is that very few fossil sites in the world are able to preserve feathers. It is now suspected that quills, proto-feathers or feathers were sported by all dinosaur groups. I love this illustration of feathered ceratopsians (Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum) by the superb Mark Witton for example. ![]() http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QIoIvGRR_2...s%2BWitton.jpg |
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Over 100 years of book illustrations and sci fi films completely wrong,
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Nice, but would be nicer if the rest of it was found. Then it would be possible to see what amount of the body is covered in feathers.
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They're just decorative tail feathers though, I don't think there's any proof yet that they were feathered all over like birds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feathered_dinosaur All of these dinosaurs have been discovered in areas of exceptional preservation, if T. rex (for example) was ever fossilised in a similar place I have absolutely no doubt that it was covered in plumage too. Feathers decay far more rapidly than bone. For example Yutyrannus huali was a large (biggest specimen 9 metres) Tyrannosaur found in one of those areas of exceptional fossil preservation I mentioned above (most are in China). http://img12.deviantart.net/6c0d/i/2...na-d4w13ia.jpg Phylogenetic bracketing bracketing helps a lot with this as well.
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It is funny when you hear about dinosaurs, it's so inconceivable now, and almost unbelievable until you see fossils. It's almost like a house you've lived in your entire life, and you discover there were residents before you. Dinosaurs the first residents of the Earth, we look quite minor residents in comparison.
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but where is dinosaur puke, that is what I want to know. How we ever find out what they did on Friday nights?
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It's almost incomprehensible that anything has survived from 100 million years ago
To put it in context the first ape ancestors of Homo were swinging in the trees about 7 million years ago and the Himalaya mountains were formed about 15 million years ago..... 100 million years........blimey........
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It is funny when you hear about dinosaurs, it's so inconceivable now, and almost unbelievable until you see fossils. It's almost like a house you've lived in your entire life, and you discover there were residents before you. Dinosaurs the first residents of the Earth, we look quite minor residents in comparison.
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er, .......... didn't trilobites precede dinosaurs ?
Multicellular life, came very, very late in evolution's history. http://www.livescience.com/55950-wor...greenland.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.9d95c5939356 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...limate-change/ |
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