How cool is this!!!

[QuailRiver]

What a find...
news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/feathered-dinosaur-tail-amber-theropod-myanmar-burma-cretaceous/

Larry C.

[tims]

The feathered dinosaur theory has been kicking around for awhile, and it's cool that they've recovered a specimen. Also interesting that it was being cabbed and might have ended up as a fashion accessory.

I'm most curious how that critter got its butt stuck in a puddle of resin.

[Mark K]

My guess would be, since they said that it was a juvenile, that it died and was covered up with the resin and that only this part was found, or the rest was discarded by ignorant peasant miners because it would not sell for jewelry. You have to remember something, many of the Asian cultures want nothing to do with stuff that is not profitable. Kind of like our scrap dealers. Turn a 1500 dollar item into a pile of scrap that they can sell right now as opposed to keeping it intact and have to sit on it for an unknown time.

[Fossilman]

Seen and read this story on F/B.......

[greig]

It is very cool. I also like the ant. However, I wonder how we know this is not something scraped off the floor at a KFC? LOL All kidding aside, I actually wonder how they determine this is dinosaur, vs bird. It was during the Cretaceous that both birds and mammals appeared.

[rockjunquie]

Wow, that is so cool! I followed the link to the wings, too. It's hard to imagine these are going into jewelry. You'd think they would go to a museum.

[Sabre52]

Saw that. Methinks, they will have to redo Jurassic Park as theropod dinos did not look anything like they thought they did. I also imagine the colors were spectacular seeing as how they were very birdlike....Mel

[Mark K]

Dec 15, 2016 14:21:26 GMT -5 Sabre52 said:

Saw that. Methinks, they will have to redo Jurassic Park as theropod dinos did not look anything like they thought they did. I also imagine the colors were spectacular seeing as how they were very birdlike....Mel

They did not have the budget or something to make the raptors authentic. Also, the Velociraptors in JP aren't Velos, they are Deinonychus. Velos are very small, but the name sound impressive.

Dec 15, 2016 13:19:45 GMT -5 rockjunquie said:

Wow, that is so cool! I followed the link to the wings, too. It's hard to imagine these are going into jewelry. You'd think they would go to a museum.

They will not be jewelry now, the scientists who are studing them will never give them up. (or let them down, or run around and desert them.)

[Sabre52]

Yeah, I was aware the JP actors were not Velos but I'd be willing to bet that whole group of dinos was much more birdlike. Quills and feathers are simply not that often preserved and both reptiles and birds tend to me more colorful and extravagant in their physical enhancements than not. I suspect we would be visually blown away were we to see them live in their habitat....Mel

[Thunder69]

[/quote]They will not be jewelry now, the scientists who are studing them will never give them up. (or let them down, or run around and desert them.)[/quote]

Lol!!!!!!!!!. That almost me cry....I will not lie....lololol

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That is bitchin!

Clone the mother effer!!

[Deleted]

Dec 15, 2016 17:50:25 GMT -5 Thunder69 said:

They will not be jewelry now, the scientists who are studing them will never give them up. (or let them down, or run around and desert them.)

Lol!!!!!!!!!. That almost me cry....I will not lie....lololol

It seems the scientists purchased them in the marketplace. Seems reasonable they can keep them and study them. They made them their property thru commerce, not confiscation.

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Dec 15, 2016 16:34:01 GMT -5 Sabre52 said:

Yeah, I was aware the JP actors were not Velos but I'd be willing to bet that whole group of dinos was much more birdlike. Quills and feathers are simply not that often preserved and both reptiles and birds tend to me more colorful and extravagant in their physical enhancements than not. I suspect we would be visually blown away were we to see them live in their habitat....Mel

Plenty of drab reptiles and birds. Think of all the ugly water snakes and finches and fence lizards and quails and all the rest. In fact, probably more than half of all species in each class are drab. And since we need to use recent phylogenies, the classes tuatara, turtles and crocs are all pretty drab too.

That said. I sure would love to see what you suggest!! That would be awesome!

[Thunder69]

Dec 17, 2016 17:42:35 GMT -5 @shotgunner said:

Dec 15, 2016 17:50:25 GMT -5 Thunder69 said:

Lol!!!!!!!!!. That almost me cry....I will not lie....lololol

It seems the scientists purchased them in the marketplace. Seems reasonable they can keep them and study them. They made them their property thru commerce, not confiscation.

Scott it is good for them that they got them... I was was laughing at the Reference to the Rick Astley song ..Never gonna give you up. ..

[Mark K]

Yes it's true, the bird is not happy to be stuck in goo.

[Mark K]

[dottyt]

Dec 15, 2016 10:35:22 GMT -5 Mark K said:

My guess would be, since they said that it was a juvenile, that it died and was covered up with the resin and that only this part was found, or the rest was discarded by ignorant peasant miners because it would not sell for jewelry. You have to remember something, many of the Asian cultures want nothing to do with stuff that is not profitable. Kind of like our scrap dealers. Turn a 1500 dollar item into a pile of scrap that they can sell right now as opposed to keeping it intact and have to sit on it for an unknown time.

I think it is well known that bugs in amber are sought after by collectors. I am sure the amber miners must know this. In fact I am wondering if some crafty person couldn't have hoaxed the whole thing. Maybe by using bits of interesting pieces from the appropriate time period and fusing them together? Maybe adding extras? I suppose if I read the whole article I could see if this find was vetted by a range scientists from various parts of the world....