Dinosaur feathers fossilized in amber

This is very cool.  BBC.

 

80 million year old dinosaur feathers were found in amber deposits in Alberta.  The feathers tell us not only about their shape, but suggest their color as well.  

 

I have in my mind an image of T-rex done up like big bird in a feather boa.  Well maybe not that.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Daniel B on September 15, 2011 at 10:40pm

There goes that sneaky old devil, running around burying fake fossils again.

 

Or, maybe they're real fossils and the t-rexes really were wearing feather boas.  If the dinosaurs were gay and no humans were around to stone them to death, I guess god would have had to personally throw the stones at them.  He must've been tired after that!  Poor guy.

Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on September 16, 2011 at 5:39pm
Somewhere I read the theory that the dinosaurs became extinct because they all went gay and there were no in vitro fertilization clinics to reproduce them.  It might have been a satire site.
Permalink Reply by Steph S. on September 16, 2011 at 5:55pm
Yeah sounds like satire to me.
Permalink Reply by Nerdlass on September 29, 2011 at 3:08am
Oh snap! That's why the meteor crashed! Gawd dunnit!
Permalink Reply by Steph S. on September 15, 2011 at 11:16pm
Thanks!  Very cool indeed.  Appreciate the link.
Permalink Reply by Chris Wright on September 16, 2011 at 7:28am

Yes, thanks for the link! Fascinating reading.

 

Be well-

Permalink Reply by Tara on September 16, 2011 at 3:38pm

A bit like this, hm?  :D

 

 

But really, that is an amazing discovery.

Permalink Reply by Aaron Wiitanen on October 15, 2011 at 10:04am
Very nice!;)
Permalink Reply by Teagraves on September 29, 2011 at 12:43am
That's awesome!! I love dinosaurs. They just got cooler XD
Permalink Reply by Zachary Moses Lashley on October 14, 2011 at 5:13pm
That is really cool! We have found many examples of dinosaur-to-bird transitional fossils, such as the Sinornithosaurus millenii and the Microraptor gui. The first is a clearly feathered dinosaur, the second was a feathered dinosaur with rear "wings", though its not sure if they were used to literally fly or just glide. At any rate, it certainly aided it in landing!
Biology is far out.
Permalink Reply by PaleoAnthroEvo on October 15, 2011 at 9:33am
I have attempted to explain to friends why the pterodactyls are not dinosaurs but that the dinosaurs with feathers are and are ancestral to birds...i realized that's hopeless.
Permalink Reply by PaleoAnthroEvo on October 15, 2011 at 10:22am

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