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Feathered Coelurosaur tail preserved in amber


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Recently in the news there has been a lot of discussion about a feathered non-avialan theropod /coelurosaur tail that was found intact, kept preserved for 99 million years in amber.  

 

Here is the study published about it:

 

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(16)31193-9.pdf

 

and a Nat Geo article 

 

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/feathered-dinosaur-tail-amber-theropod-myanmar-burma-cretaceous/

 

On an awesome-ness scale of 1 to Sue, where do you place a fossil find like this? (Feel free to insert your own subjective fossil scale criteria, as well as swapping Sue for another fossil that reperesents a perfect 10 to you) 

 

 

-Curious Fossil noob 

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Welcome to the Forum. :) 

 

This was previously posted HERE,  under the Fossil News sub-forum. ;) 

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