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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: knightstorm on December 11, 2016, 09:56:36 am

Title: Dinosaur tail with feathers found preserved in Amber
Post by: knightstorm on December 11, 2016, 09:56:36 am

I'm surprised no one's posted this yet.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/feathered-dinosaur-tail-amber-theropod-myanmar-burma-cretaceous/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_tw20161210news-dinotail&utm_campaign=Content&sf45739818=1 (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/feathered-dinosaur-tail-amber-theropod-myanmar-burma-cretaceous/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_tw20161210news-dinotail&utm_campaign=Content&sf45739818=1)

Title: Re: Dinosaur tail with feathers found preserved in Amber
Post by: Sirgod on December 11, 2016, 10:00:25 am

Well, I had no idea Dinosaurs where so kinky.

Seriously , good find. I hadn't seen this one.

Stephen

Title: Re: Dinosaur tail with feathers found preserved in Amber
Post by: Captain Adam on December 11, 2016, 01:31:38 pm

Now that's one cool article. Thanks.

Title: Re: Dinosaur tail with feathers found preserved in Amber
Post by: Nemesis on December 11, 2016, 01:46:14 pm

I always love seeing stories about feathered dinosaurs ever since a friend asked me how accurate I thought the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park were and I told him they should have been fluffy (with feathers or protofeathers).  He didn't take it well, in part because his wife had nick named him Fluffy.  It was only a few weeks later that I was able to show him a Scientific American with feathered dinosaurs on the cover.  He hated to admit I might be right.  :) 

Title: Re: Dinosaur tail with feathers found preserved in Amber
Post by: Brush Wolf on December 11, 2016, 02:41:40 pm

Quote from: Nemesis on December 11, 2016, 01:46:14 pm

I always love seeing stories about feathered dinosaurs ever since a friend asked me how accurate I thought the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park were and I told him they should have been fluffy (with feathers or protofeathers).  He didn't take it well, in part because his wife had nick named him Fluffy.  It was only a few weeks later that I was able to show him a Scientific American with feathered dinosaurs on the cover.  He hated to admit I might be right.  :) 

The theory that the dinosaurs were more related to birds than reptiles was around for a long time before Jurassic Park. I feel that some were more reptile while most were probably more avian.

Title: Re: Dinosaur tail with feathers found preserved in Amber
Post by: Nemesis on December 11, 2016, 04:38:55 pm

Up to that time I hadn't seen suggestions that they shared feathers with birds.  What I had seen was that birds were derived from dinosaurs and the assumption seemed to be that beaks, feathers and warm blood were features acquired after the split.  I could easily have missed other theories of course.  Never saw a picture of a feathered dinosaur before that SciAm issue either. 

Title: Re: Dinosaur tail with feathers found preserved in Amber
Post by: d4v1ks on December 12, 2016, 03:36:48 am

Very interesting. Thanks.