Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber (2016)
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Re: Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber (2016)
#2Is this the first discovery of color for dinosaurs?
Re: Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber (2016)
#3I wonder if we'll eventually find that all, or most, dinosaurs were feathered. I mean, it is a bit of a coincidence, that we find a dinosaur tail in amber and it just so happens to be from a feather dinosaur- it's a bit of a coincidence.
Have other dinosaur body parts been found so well preserved?
Re: Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber (2016)
#4I wonder if we'll eventually find that all, or most, dinosaurs were feathered. I mean, it is a bit of a coincidence, that we find a dinosaur tail in amber and it just so happens to be from a feather dinosaur- it's a bit of a coincidence. Have other dinosaur body parts been found so well preserved?
feathers are more likely to get stuck in resin?
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#5Consequences be damned, if I could make Jurassic Park, I would.
Re: Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber (2016)
#6I wonder if we'll eventually find that all, or most, dinosaurs were feathered. I mean, it is a bit of a coincidence, that we find a dinosaur tail in amber and it just so happens to be from a feather dinosaur- it's a bit of a coincidence. Have other dinosaur body parts been found so well preserved?
I think current think is that most therapods had at least some feathers [1]. Not sure about the dinosaurs that walked on all fours though.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theropoda#Skin,_scales_and_fea...
Re: Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber (2016)
#7Assuming that birds are a group of therapod dinosaurs, as many scientists now describe them, it is true that all extant dinosaurs are feathered.
But it is exciting to see these fossils discovered, so perhaps they should be described as extinct therapod feathers.
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#8Consequences be damned, if I could make Jurassic Park, I would.
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should." :D
Re: Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber (2016)
#9Consequences be damned, if I could make Jurassic Park, I would.
If we are able to get any DNA out amber that would be amazing. From what I understand DNA is not stable for that long. If we are able to get any DNA it would probably be inferred some microscopic structures or something left behind from the DNA. However, even then I doubt it would be complete. So why it would be amazing it would just be tiny fragments of DNA. I doubt we will even get a tiny fragment. So highly doubt we will ever get enough genetic information to be able resurrect a dinosaur. Even if we would could fill in the blanks with bird DNA.
So even if you wanted to I don't think you could. However, a mammoth for instance might be possible to clone.
Re: Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber (2016)
#10I wonder if we'll eventually find that all, or most, dinosaurs were feathered. I mean, it is a bit of a coincidence, that we find a dinosaur tail in amber and it just so happens to be from a feather dinosaur- it's a bit of a coincidence. Have other dinosaur body parts been found so well preserved?
feathers are more likely to get stuck in resin?
I think the defining characteristic of a dinosaur that would allow it to be trapped in resin is small size. I couldn't imagine a T-Rex getting trapped in resin, say :)