Feathered Dinosaur Tail Hidden in Amber: The Historical Discovery (PHOTO)

    A dinosaur feather was found enclosed in an amber casket, a treasure for paleontologists. In fact, in recent days in Myanmar a Chinese scholar found a piece of amber in his hands with a feathered tail inside it dating back to 99 million years ago.

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    A dinosaur feather it was found enclosed in an amber casket, a treasure for paleontologists. In fact, in recent days in Myanmar a Chinese scholar found a piece of amber in his hands with a feathered tail inside it dating back to 99 million years ago.





    Paleontologist Lida Xing of the China University of Geosciences in Beijing was on the hunt for amber fragments in a market when a particular piece caught her eye from a jewelry counter. Along with the insects that amber usually keeps there was something else: a 3,6 centimeter long tail.

    He knew immediately that he had found something special. Although it is not the first time that amber has retained its feathers, on this occasion for scientists there was no doubt: they were not of a prehistoric bird but of a dinosaur since a fragment of the tail was also attached to the feather.

    Aware of the treasure found, Xing contacted colleague Ryan McKellar, who deals with paleontology at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Canada.

    Feathered Dinosaur Tail Hidden in Amber: The Historical Discovery (PHOTO)

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    Using photos taken through microscopes and computed tomography, the scientists saw that unlike Archeopteryx (a creature that lived 150 million years ago and considered by many researchers to be one of the very first birds), the vertebrae were not "fused" to the tail. . The latter, on the other hand, was thin flexible and was seen for the first time in 3D.

    Feathered Dinosaur Tail Hidden in Amber: The Historical Discovery (PHOTO)

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    As the researchers in Current Biology explained, the owner of the feather was not a bird but a dinosaur, and possibly the member of a group of small bipeds called celurosaurs.

    Jurassic Park it is reality, or almost.

    Francesca Mancuso

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