99 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Tail — with Feathers — Found Preserved in Amber: VIDEO

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99 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Tail — with Feathers — Found Preserved in Amber: VIDEO

Scientists have found a perfectly preserved dinosaur tail in a piece of amber the size of a dried apricot — and the tail has feathers.

Writes National Geographic:

An extraordinarily well-preserved dinosaur tail, with a fluffy covering of feathers, lies trapped within a piece of amber. The animal it belonged to would have lived about 99 million years ago. Researchers from China and Canada identify it as a juvenile of some type of coelurosaur, a group that includes birdlike dinosaur species that walked on two legs. But because the bones of the tail are flexible and not fused as in a bird’s tail, the specimen must be a terrestrial dinosaur rather than an actual bird. Lida Xing, first author of the study announcing the discovery, found the amber for sale in a northern Myanmar (Burma) market.

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