Dinosaur feathers found in amber
 

Amazing find of feathers incased in amber from the age of the dinosaurs:

Dinosaur Feathers Found in Amber: Photos : Discovery News

Tree resin captures evolution of feathers on dinosaurs and birds

Really stunning finds that bring us closer to a time when our world was more like Pandora.

Its quite amazing that these feathers have been untouched and unaltered since the mesozoik era, a time when giant animals made the earth shake, giant creatures roamed the seas and amazing reptiles flew in the sky.

Maybe some of the protofeathers came from creatures like this:

http://www.andrewplant.com/images/ga...auropteryx.jpg

A view of a couple of the feathers

http://singlebarbed.com/wp-content/u...ckle_thumb.jpg

http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/imag...d-feathers.jpg

Goodness gracious. How cool!

Amazing :)

I find it really interesting to think of how they were once part of an animal :)

I think the feathers look fantastic. It's amazing to think that they have been preserved for all this time. :)

This isn't the first time dino feathers have been found, is it?

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Darn it am I going to have to change my plans again? Argg guess its back to Paleontology as my planned career!

I know what ya mean cyvaris, it's like I wana learn everything. It's like doe I study dinosaurs, physics, ecology, mechanical engineering, engineering physics, environmental engineering... it's so f*cking hard to choose!

Oh I'm not much of a history guy, or computers, those kinda bore me. It's strictly the majors/subjects I mentioned.

But on another note: Project Free TV :: Planet Dinosaur :: Season 1

watched all but #2 today. Kinda sad I can't watch it anymore though, cause I watched it all. Anyway, pretty good dinosaur tv show.

I am between Creative Writing(fat lot of good that will do...though I do have outlines for something like nine novels floatin about), Law-Environmental Law, or Paleontology.

And I have 3 semesters left to decide....argg.

@Clarke...is it bad I read that last line in River's voice?

Most earlier finds have been in the form of petrified remains and impressions in rocks. One example is the remains of the small theropod Sinosauropteryx from China which is preserved with something that most researchers interpret as feathers or protofeathers.

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/wp-con...riped-tail.jpg

That is so cool. :awesome:

Look at the scale... amazing :)
People always portray dinosaurs as huge, but they came in so many different adaptations.

True. :)

Velociraptors for example are only the height of a large chicken (2-3ft).
There are a lot of different dinosaurs in here: http://www.dinodictionary.com/dinos_uv.asp
It's good to see a scale included as well.

Here is another artistic rendering of the small chinese dinosaur Sinosauropteryx whos petrified remains I showed you above. This rendering is from a charming childrens book:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg

I always used to wonder what color certain dinosaurs were :) I had some plastic figures when I was younger, and I used to think, How does anyone know?

I used to think the same thing when I was a kid Moco. I bet they probably camoflauged with their sorroundings pretty well, although I saw that some, like oviraptor might have been brightly colored like peacocks, which is cool.

Now a new feathered dinosaur has been found. It is more distantly related to birds than most other known and its also older than most of them. The new dinosaur is from the Jura period and found in Germany. It is preserved in limestone and its feathery filaments are still visible.

New Feathered Theropod Dinosaur Found in Germany | Paleontology | Sci-News.com

Adaptation is amazing. Also, an interesting idea, possible feather-like structures in others - I wonder if that's going to be studied further now.

But...butbut...but...

I liked my scaly behemoths...now they look like they're wearing sweaters or something. :<