Jump to content

Fossilized Eye Tissue of Cretaceous Bird Found in China (open access paper)


Oxytropidoceras

Recommended Posts

This Bird 'Eyeball' Survived 120 Million Years

By Laura Geggel, Live Science, January 11, 2018

https://www.livescience.com/61405-dinosaur-age-birds-saw-in-color.html

 

An Amazing Fossilized Eye Reveals How an Ancient Bird Saw

Feast your eyes on this. By Natasha Frost, January 12, 2018

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/amazing-fossilized-ancient-bird-eye-color-rods-cones

 

The paper is:

 

Tanaka, G., Zhou, B., Zhang, Y., Siveter, D.J. and Parker, A.R.,

2017. Rods and cones in an enantiornithine bird eye from

the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota. Heliyon, 3(12), p.e00479.

http://www.heliyon.com/article/e00479/

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...

It seems strange that the eye tissue was preserved but the feathers weren't... or is it a bad quality photo of the fossil?

Still, what an amazing find!

Thanks for sharing!

:) 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 3 months later...

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

×
×
  • Create New...