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Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber


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8 minutes ago, Lilly said:

Oh my goodness...to be able to look at a 90 million year old piece of a dinosaur is amazing!

Indeed, truly amazing...  cool ant too.

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This is awesome. Hell yeah, Science! It's crazy they could surmise so much about the dinosaurs simply from fossilized bone. After this discovery, they should feel quite proud of themselves

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This is very cool!  Beautiful feathers. :)

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I wonder often about what could possibly come out of the melting glaciers around the world. I know the found the five-thousand year old man and some wooly mammoths. I know (or doubt) there are 99 million year old glaciers, but wonder what amazing animals or people are locked up in all that ice. Imagine if someone came across a Neanderthal man or something similar.  Now that would be cool.

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Amber is awesome. It kills....then preserves.

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1 hour ago, Why not said:

I wonder often about what could possibly come out of the melting glaciers around the world. I know the found the five-thousand year old man and some wooly mammoths. I know (or doubt) there are 99 million year old glaciers, but wonder what amazing animals or people are locked up in all that ice. Imagine if someone came across a Neanderthal man or something similar.  Now that would be cool.

No ice on the planet is as old as the dinosaurs, but woolly mammoths, steppe bison, and now cave lions have all been found preserved in permafrost (not exactly ice, but close).

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What a find! Goodness knows what else is out there. Makes me want to don my Indiana Jones hat...

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39 minutes ago, brlesq1 said:

What a find! Goodness knows what else is out there. Makes me want to don my Indiana Jones hat...

That's archaeology, not paleontology. There is a difference.

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1 hour ago, Carnoferox said:

That's archaeology, not paleontology. There is a difference.

I can still wear my Indiana Jones hat, can't I?

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43 minutes ago, brlesq1 said:

I can still wear my Indiana Jones hat, can't I?

Absolutely. Helps keep the sun off. 

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yeah this is pretty far out.What a great find!  Its interesting to think some dinosaurs possibly sported a full plumage of feathers with an array of colors..unlike the dark scaly beasts we were taught in school.

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7 hours ago, South Alabam said:

Amber is pretty amazing too.

Quite so, is amber  unique as a product of a biological process, that persists indefinitely in its original state ?

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I was showing this to my kids today, and I commented that several decades ago, the experts would have refused to say it was from a dinosaur, because everyone back then knew for a fact that dinosaurs only had scales.

Super cool find. Makes me want to go to those amber markets and have a look around.

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One has to be very careful about getting amber nowadays ... the synthetic versions  are getting so good its practically impossible to tell the difference without those fancy machines ... even to the most experienced of experts ~
 

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How to recognize genuine amber?

Mon, 09/14/2009 - 21:13 — Alicia

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How to recognize genuine amber? How to be sure that your piece of the “Gold of the North” is authentic and not just a plastic fake? Although there are various tests to help recognize true amber, it is generally not so trivial, especially with the modern methods of “enhancement” of amber. Even the most experienced specialists can be mistaken, as happened to the experts at the British Natural History Museum, who recently discovered that a bee preserved in amber believed to be one of the oldest known examples of this particular species was in fact a fake and probably no more than 150 years old.
The difference between glass and amber is relatively easy to recognize – glass is heavier, colder and harder than amber. On the other side, copal is softer, easier to scratch and it melts at lower temperature.

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15 minutes ago, third_eye said:

One has to be very careful about getting amber nowadays ... the synthetic versions  are getting so good its practically impossible to tell the difference without those fancy machines ... even to the most experienced of experts ~
 

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Isn't there some kind of density test they can do? Where amber is lighter then most minerals, but heavier then most plastics? 

I guess that might be hard to do while you're walking around a South East Asian market.... :tu:

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1 minute ago, DieChecker said:

Isn't there some kind of density test they can do? Where amber is lighter then most minerals, but heavier then most plastics? 

I guess that might be hard to do while you're walking around a South East Asian market.... :tu:

That depends a lot on experience ... I mean if you look at the list of 'tests' it actually depends on the standard and 'quality' of the fakery ... some fakes are very very good right up to the 'scent' and 'feel'

One rule of thumb to me is that 98% of what's out in the open market are fakes :lol:

And it costs a lot too ...

 

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Amber Value, Price, and Jewelry Information - International Gem Society

https://www.gemsociety.org › Articles › List of Gemstones by Name
Everything you ever wanted to know about amber. Find value guidelines, scientific data, expert comments, and more in our Gemstone Listings.
Hardness‎: ‎2 - 2.5
Heat Sensitivity‎: ‎Very
Fracture‎: ‎Conchoidal
Specific Gravity‎: ‎1.05 to 1.096, usually 1.08
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Amber stone fraction (amber stone weight). Average price in USD per 1 Kg (final price depends on order quantity). Quantity available per month. Up to 2 g.


 

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So far in my entire life of looking out for pieces I've only handled less than 10 pieces of authentic 'fossil' grade amber .... and tiny ones too ... :lol:

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