but in case it is not,
I was fascinated to read that the tail of a
juvenile coelurosaur, (a group of dinosaurs that includes tyrannosaurs), was found in a piece of amber,
but what makes this find so special is that the
roughly apricot-sized piece of amber contains a 1.4-inch appendage of 8
vertebrae unmistakably covered in primitive feathers, scientists ruled out the
possibility of the tail belonging to a bird,
the find was
recently discovered by palaeontologist Lida Xing while collection samples in
Myanmar last year, and what a find it was dating back to the mid-Cretaceous Period some 99 million
years ago! the
findings were first published today in a report co-authored by Ryan McKellar in Current Biology and you can read more on National Geographic, if only they could fine the rest of the specimen.
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