'Once in a lifetime find': Dinosaur tail discovered trapped in amber
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Source: CNN
The tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur has been found entombed in amber, an unprecedented discovery that has blown away scientists.
Xing Lida, a Chinese paleontologist found the specimen, the size of a dried apricot, at an amber market in northern Myanmar near the Chinese border.
The remarkable piece was destined to end up as a curiosity or piece of jewelry, with Burmese traders believing a plant fragment was trapped inside.
"I realized that the content was a vertebrate, probably theropod, rather than any plant," Xing told CNN.
The tail section belongs to a young coelurosaurian -- from the same group of dinosaurs as the predatory velociraptors and the tyrannosaurus
Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/08/health/dinosaur-tail-trapped-in-amber-trnd/index.html
Kingofalldems
(38,475 posts)Says the Trumpies.
jpak
(41,759 posts)yup
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Some of the fake and counterfeit items coming out of China are extremely hard to spot.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Publication History
Published: December 8, 2016
Accepted: October 5, 2016
Received in revised form: September 7, 2016
Received: July 10, 2016
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2816%2931193-9
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)'cause it's 9:00 pm in mine.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)So I'm online from 4:00 AM central, where I live, to 5:00 PM PST, when my buds call it a day.
But I do take naps in between.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Yes. Naps are a good thing!
I also don't want to come off as dissing China or the Chinese but actual Chinese scientists have voiced their concerns about prehistoric counterfeits coming out of China.
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1888548,00.html
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)I'll be in Seattle starting Dec 10th to Dec 17th to schmooze with my buds there.
If you want to make contact, send me a PM.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)paleotn
(17,958 posts)...not look at turkeys the same way anymore. 90 million years ago, our ancestors were but a small snack before Thanksgiving dinner.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Hekate
(90,793 posts)paleotn
(17,958 posts)...if it's as advertised, it's a fantastic find.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,485 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)"McKellar said that soft tissue and decayed blood from the tail were found in the amber but no genetic material was preserved.
"Unfortunately, the Jurassic Park answer is still a 'no' -- this is firmly in the realm of science fiction," he said."
yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,449 posts)mcar
(42,372 posts)Duplicate thread. Original here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141634892