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

[Kakato]

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.

Thats the strange part,there are all kinds of concretians around here but not many have anything inside them,most of my fossils are in situ in the limestone and clearly visible,it just takes a tap with the hammer to break them out.I also have not found many similiar in the bedding anywhere around my little fossil site.
I did witness the failure of a rock wall in the line creek mine which exposed thousand of dino prints.Lots of hardosaurus and t-rex prints.Think national geo even came and did some filming there.
Interesting thing about the mountains here,they are all flipped upside down so the oldest sedimentary layers are now on the surface and the younger laid down rock is deep underground.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Thats the strange part,there are all kinds of concretians around here but not many have anything inside them,most of my fossils are in situ in the limestone and clearly visible,it just takes a tap with the hammer to break them out.I also have not found many similiar in the bedding anywhere around my little fossil site.
I did witness the failure of a rock wall in the line creek mine which exposed thousand of dino prints.Lots of hardosaurus and t-rex prints.Think national geo even came and did some filming there.
Interesting thing about the mountains here,they are all flipped upside down so the oldest sedimentary layers are now on the surface and the younger laid down rock is deep underground.

That's some trippy stuff. I hope you have your camera with you the next time your
travels take you that direction. I'd love to see some pics. It sounds fascinating!!

 

[Johnnny]

Quadrapedal
dinosaurs are todays reptiles, thus two legged birds and four legged reptiles....

Im not trying to be a prick but arent the dinosaurs, lizards? and stand erect with their legs underneath them. While reptiles stand with their legs to the sides and still do? So unless they de evolved

to land a assistant job on Burgess while in uni

im jealous, but there are no birds or dinosaurs nor is there any tree sap from that strata

 

[petros]

I'm jealous, but there are no birds or dinosaurs nor is there any tree sap from that strata

Both are reptiles johnny.


Nope but it does contain the most prolific and diverse species the planet has ever seen. The trilobita.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Im not trying to be a prick but arent the dinosaurs, lizards? and stand erect with their legs underneath them. While reptiles stand with their legs to the sides and still do? So unless they de evolved

If some form of adaptation helps a class better fit into their environment, is
that necessarily have to be devolved? Whales where once a land dwelling
but semi-aquatic wolf-like critter. Did they devolve to become whales?
Modern man is generally no longer built as robustly as he once was,
but would that be considered as devolved?

I'm out of my element on this one, & just glean my info on this from the TV
mostly. I've been wrong before, and could very well be wrong here too on
the bipedal/quadrapedal dino thing. I pulled it from a show on Robert Bakker
a while back, & his theories might very well have been disproven at this time.

A good arguement against my statement would be that modern birds are warm
blooded, & modern reptiles are cold blooded....so what where the dinos? Warm
or cold blooded? The circular arguement would be again, "If some form of
adaptation helps a class (or division in a class) better fit into their environment,
is that necessarily have to be devolved?" It's all cool stuff regardless. :smile:

 

[Johnnny]

De-evolved is a bad word your right, but im still not convinced that modern reptiles are descended of dinosaurs.

 

[petros]

I love these birds....

Yabba Dabba Doo!!!

Meet the Flintstones!




1. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
2. Ostriches don't really bury their heads in the sand. They have sand-colored necks and heads, and they lay their heads on the ground as camouflage sometimes.
3. Ostriches are the fastest two-legged animal, able to run 45 miles per hour continuously for at least 30 minutes.
4. There are at least 2 million ostriches in the world; they are not endangered.
5. A full-grown ostrich has one of the most advanced immune systems known to man.
6. Ostriches are dinosaurs: there are ostriches skeletons that have been found which are over 120 million years old.

 

[Kakato]

De-evolved is a bad word your right, but im still not convinced that modern reptiles are descended of dinosaurs.

Birds are,the proof is in their bones which are hollow and makes them light enough to fly and evade predators.
They are the descendants of the dino's.Most of the fossils in my collection which is gargantuan have no birds from the mass extinction 65 million years ago.

 

[Johnnny]

Did the 4 legged dinosaurs evolve into our modern day reptiles? Is what i dont believe.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Do some research. You might start here: Dinosaur Classification - Enchanted Learning Software

 

[Johnnny]

To most people birds wouldnt be considered modern day reptiles. And looking more into it, aves isnt a group in the Reptilia class, but its own class.


So modern day reptiles are not directly related to dinosaurs. And birds arent reptiles, just like mammels arent reptiles..... And all the 4 legged, lizard hip dinosaurs evoled into nothing because they died

 

[petros]

Mammals aren't new either.