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Dinosaur & Bird Feathers Preserved In Amber

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For all of our favorite Paleo-Ornithologists at TFF... :P

 

McKellar, R.C., Chatterton, B.D., Wolfe, A. P., & Currie, P.J. 2011

A diverse assemblage of Late Cretaceous dinosaur and bird feathers from Canadian amber.

Science, 333(6049):1619-1622   LINK

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Saw that in the newspaper...not as dtailed as that pdf, though. Thanks for posting! ;)

It's cool to see all those stages of feather evolution in one place.

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Where is Auspex? Already on the way to Canada?

Thomas

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes (Confucius, 551 BC - 479 BC).

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I'm dehydrated from drooling!

Beyond the wonderfulness of these fossils, the paper is a fantastic synthesis of all preceding work on feather morphology, with new light being cast on the subject. Sample size rules!

"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

>Paleontology is an evolving science.

>May your wonders never cease!

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