cheney416 Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Recently, I prepared ambers from Indonesia and I found something looks like a mammal hair. I want to sure what is this. Thanks to your help Other picture 1 Other picture 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 I don't see how you could tell if it was hair without some sort of DNA testing. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM - APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 A bit difficult to tell from these pictures. It could also be a fissure/crack within the amber. Perhaps the only way to know for sure without slicing it would be to have it put under a very powerful microscope as hair generally has a recognizable structure, pending the type of animal it comes from. ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Just like the others said, hard to tell from the picture, but to me it looks more feather-like with little follicles extending from the main root. “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 NB: The link is too long to post,but this pdf IS downloadable from RG hyena 1-s2.0-S030544031300160X-main.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 someofyoumightlikethis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 This is the best I can obtain from your images: original, unprocessed image processed image at 8x, 300dpi, 24bit It could be hair. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Great work Abyssunder. Several works exist on mammalian hair recognition, all of them pertaining to the Recent,of course. Some of them with a forensic bent.*shivers* Maybe in those countries where the wildlife suffers a lot of poaching ,the need to recognize hair is more immediate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpc Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 It looks certainly biological. Nice photo work, abyssunder. It looiks like some really high quality pix would be a bonus on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Built up on Abyssunder's good work. Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM - APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 I don't think that's a mammal hair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ischua Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 3 hours ago, Fossildude19 said: Built up on Abyssunder's good work. If It really is spiked it looks more like a feather. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/feathered-dinosaur-tail-amber-theropod-myanmar-burma-cretaceous/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 ... then the questions could be: - How old is the Indonesian amber? - What is the comparative scale/measurment for the specimen? - If not hair, what could it be, feather? (Burma) - May be insect antenna? It has an unusual shape for any of the insect legs I've ever seen before (too wavy for that), but it has a good "segmented " pattern for an insect antenna. I suppose, that in picture 2&3 could be spider legs (compared to the Baltic amber inclusions, but it's just my thought). Please, feel free to comment. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheney416 Posted June 15, 2017 Author Share Posted June 15, 2017 Wow, thanks to everyone. I have never think about like those options. Here is more high quality picture than I first upload. I take this picture with my small nicroscope(40X) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdeutsch Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 new images look the same as what others have shown previously Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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