As reported by CNN:
The tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur has been found entombed in amber, an unprecedented discovery that has blown away scientists.
Xing Lida, a Chinese paleontologist found the specimen, the size of a dried apricot, at an amber market in northern Myanmar near the Chinese border...The tail section belongs to a young coelurosaurian -- from the same group of dinosaurs as the predatory velociraptors and the tyrannosaurus.The sparrow-sized creature could have danced in the palm of your hand.
I was wondering how they could tell what the feathers came from based on that article and the attached pictures. It seemed the piece was quite small.
ReplyDeleteThen I stumbled upon another article with a much larger (and more obvious) picture that shows the tail.
http://now.howstuffworks.com/2016/12/20/scientists-discover-first-dinosaur-tail-preserved-amber