Skulduggery Posted December 8, 2016 #1 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Has this been posted yet? http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/feathered-dinosaur-tail-amber-theropod-myanmar-burma-cretaceous/ 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark One Posted December 8, 2016 #2 Share Posted December 8, 2016 That is cool. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilly Posted December 8, 2016 #3 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Oh my goodness...to be able to look at a 90 million year old piece of a dinosaur is amazing! 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OverSword Posted December 8, 2016 #4 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Incroyable! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aftermath Posted December 8, 2016 #5 Share Posted December 8, 2016 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Grey Posted December 8, 2016 #6 Share Posted December 8, 2016 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoferox Posted December 8, 2016 #7 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Just think that one day they could find an entire small theropod encased in amber. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted December 8, 2016 #8 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Maybe its been found a long time ago but nobody had any idea ... ~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vorg Posted December 8, 2016 #9 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Amber is pretty amazing too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJNYC Posted December 8, 2016 #10 Share Posted December 8, 2016 This is very cool! Beautiful feathers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Why not Posted December 8, 2016 #11 Share Posted December 8, 2016 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightScreams Posted December 8, 2016 #12 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Amber is awesome. It kills....then preserves. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gumball Posted December 8, 2016 #13 Share Posted December 8, 2016 This is possibly one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brok Posted December 8, 2016 #14 Share Posted December 8, 2016 What an incredible discovery! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoferox Posted December 9, 2016 #15 Share Posted December 9, 2016 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). 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brlesq1 Posted December 9, 2016 #16 Share Posted December 9, 2016 What a find! Goodness knows what else is out there. Makes me want to don my Indiana Jones hat... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoferox Posted December 9, 2016 #17 Share Posted December 9, 2016 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brlesq1 Posted December 9, 2016 #18 Share Posted December 9, 2016 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowSot Posted December 9, 2016 #19 Share Posted December 9, 2016 43 minutes ago, brlesq1 said: I can still wear my Indiana Jones hat, can't I? Absolutely. Helps keep the sun off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khol Posted December 9, 2016 #20 Share Posted December 9, 2016 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habitat Posted December 9, 2016 #21 Share Posted December 9, 2016 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 ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DieChecker Posted December 9, 2016 #22 Share Posted December 9, 2016 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. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted December 9, 2016 #23 Share Posted December 9, 2016 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 ~ Quote How to recognize genuine amber? Mon, 09/14/2009 - 21:13 — Alicia ` 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. ` green crafts link ~ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DieChecker Posted December 9, 2016 #24 Share Posted December 9, 2016 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 ~ green crafts link ~ 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.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted December 9, 2016 #25 Share Posted December 9, 2016 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.... 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 And it costs a lot too ... Quote 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 ~ RAW AMBER FROM UKRAINE. AMBER STONES. NATURAL ROUGH ... amber-europe.com/rawamber.html 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. ~ 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 ... ~ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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