Pics of Ancient Bird Feathers in Amber-78 Million Years Old

[bill barilko]

Science is more amazing every day

This close-up shows amber from a 78-million-year-old deposit near Medicine Hat, Alta., containing a single filament from the feather of an ancient bird, tangled in an equally ancient spiderweb.

This undated handout photo provided by the journal Science shows an overview of 16 clumped feather barbs in Canadian Late Cretaceous amber specimen TMP. In science fiction, amber preserved DNA that allowed rebirth of dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. In real life, amber preserved feathers that provide a new image of what dinosaurs looked like.

 

[DurkaDurka]

That's some incredible detail for something so old, the feather details are remarkable. Nice find.

 

[Bar Sinister]

Quite an amazing find. It looks like a lot of artists and filmmakers are going to have to revise their depictions of dinosaurs. Instead of making them look like lizards they may have to make them look like birds.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

Quite an amazing find. It looks like a lot of artists and filmmakers are going to have to revise their depictions of dinosaurs. Instead of making them look like lizards they may have to make them look like birds.

That will ruin everything.

I am starting a facebook group to oppose that. Who's with me?

 

[Kakato]

Dinosaurs that survived evolved into birds,as a rockhound I can say that Amber is allways nice to find and is created by fossilized tree sap.Theres many nice pieces in collections with spiders and other bugs that got trapped in the sap.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

The earth is only 2000 years old. My guess is that cavemen manufactured those pieces of amber when they weren't fighting the T Rex and saving Raquelle Welch.:razz:

 

[CDNBear]

Aussie scientists confirm 'missing link' : World News Australia on SBS

 

[taxslave]

Quite an amazing find. It looks like a lot of artists and filmmakers are going to have to revise their depictions of dinosaurs. Instead of making them look like lizards they may have to make them look like birds.

Chickens are dinosaurs.

 

[petros]

The earth is only 2000 years old. My guess is that cavemen manufactured those pieces of amber when they weren't fighting the T Rex and saving Raquelle Welch.:razz:

I have a partial bird wing from the Gobi that I traded
with a Prof for a piece of Cretacious wood with fibres I found in shale.

Johos, born yesterday Christians and Mormons used to come visit until I brought them in to view my fossil collection.

The born yesterdays said that Satan put fossils on Earth to trick Christians. Pehaps Satan started the born yesterday movement to trick dinosaurs?


If any of you collect, I will buy or trade fossils.

 

[WLDB]

I would not associate with such weird religious folks.

This stuff is cool though.

 

[SLM]

Aussie scientists confirm 'missing link' : World News Australia on SBS

Cool article. I watched a bunch of shows on NatGeo a few weeks ago that laid out theories regarding the common ancestory of modern man and neanderthals. Interesting stuff.

Pehaps Satan started the born yesterday movement to trick dinosaurs?

Most plausible theory I've heard to date.

Dinosaurs were always getting the short end of the stick weren't they? Meteors, mega-volcanoes, now satan. They just can't get a break.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Dinosaurs that survived evolved into birds,as a rockhound I can say that Amber is allways nice to find and is created by fossilized tree sap.Theres many nice pieces in collections with spiders and other bugs that got trapped in the sap.

Sort of....bipedal dinosaurs (the way understand it) evolved into birds. Quadrapedal
dinosaurs are todays reptiles, thus two legged birds and four legged reptiles....

Amber is cool stuff, traded and sold like coins, and often found in the same magazines,
along with fosils and jewelry.

 

[MHz]

Great, a T-Rex with the speed of a modern day road-runner, no wonder mammals lived in burrows back then, now they just have to verify that 'birds' evolved with the first plants and trees which was before the oceans had life.

 

[Mowich]

Cool article. I watched a bunch of shows on NatGeo a few weeks ago that laid out theories regarding the common ancestory of modern man and neanderthals. Interesting stuff.

I watched that series too, SLM......amazing stuff wasn't it. I was especially interested in how they showed that the way a skull sits on the spinal column determined whether it was quadrupedal or bipedal.

 

[petros]

Chimps and humans are the only critters to have male pattern balding.....

 

[SLM]

I watched that series too, SLM......amazing stuff wasn't it. I was especially interested in how they showed that the way a skull sits on the spinal column determined whether it was quadrupedal or bipedal.

It was very interesting. I think I caught the series about half way through, but I found the ideas of the different migrations out of Africa really interesting. And there was that pygmy group that was isolated to the one island in the Phillipines I think.

It's all one really big puzzle, it's interesting whenever they find a new piece.

Chimps and humans are the only critters to have male pattern balding.....

Is that why the hyenas are laughing?

 

[mabudon]

The thing that ticks me off about this whole deal is that my collection of plastic dinosaurs is becoming less and less realistic with each new discovery, and I am not looking forward to replacing them (tho I like the fact that they are made OF THEMSELVES, so I guess they are still good for irony)

 

[petros]

The thing that ticks me off about this whole deal is that my collection of plastic dinosaurs is becoming less and less realistic with each new discovery, and I am not looking forward to replacing them (tho I like the fact that they are made OF THEMSELVES, so I guess they are still good for irony)

Psssst! Oil doesn't come from dinosaurs.

 

[Kakato]

I have a partial bird wing from the Gobi that I traded
with a Prof for a piece of Cretacious wood with fibres I found in shale.

Johos, born yesterday Christians and Mormons used to come visit until I brought them in to view my fossil collection.

The born yesterdays said that Satan put fossils on Earth to trick Christians. Pehaps Satan started the born yesterday movement to trick dinosaurs?


If any of you collect, I will buy or trade fossils.

I have about ten tonnes of fossiliferous limestone,home to Corbula munda fresh water clams,baculites and some real nice ammonites complete with 3 colors and nice suture lines.I have a huge fossil collection.

 

[petros]

I have about ten tonnes of fossiliferous limestone,home to Corbula munda fresh water clams,baculites and some real nice ammonites complete with 3 colors and nice suture lines.I have a huge fossil collection.

I don't bring anymore of those home. Concretions are easy to come by in these parts. I was lucky enough to land a assistant job on Burgess while in uni. Paleo wasn't my main interest but the experience was incredible and reduced my tuition and really boosted favour within the circles of geo/paleo academia.