Feather Preserved in Dinosaur Dung Could Explain Why Birds Survived Mass Extinction
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In 2016, a Montana researcher picked up a rock half the size of a golf ball; 10 years later, scans showed dinosaur dung holding the finest feather yet found from the age of dinosaurs
Archaeology & Ancient World News: Sometimes, the most extraordinary discoveries are hiding in things that look utterly ordinary. In 2016, a researcher working in Montana spotted a smal.
Feather Preserved in Dinosaur Dung Could Explain Why Birds Survived Mass Extinction
A feather preserved inside dinosaur dung could help explain why birds survived the mass extinction that wiped out most life on Earth. Specifically, it could explain whether it prepared a certain lineage of birds to weather the unnatural winter that followed in the wake of the asteroid impact. Scientists at the Field Museum of Chicago […]
In 2016, a Montana researcher picked up a rock half the size of a golf ball; 10 years later, scans showed dinosaur dung holding the finest feather yet found from the age of dinosaurs - THE LOCAL REPORT ARTICLES
David DeMar Jr., a researcher with the University of Washington’s Burke Museum, discovered the unusual nodule while conducting fieldwork in northeastern Montana’s Hell Creek Formation. Sometimes, the most extraordinary discoveries are hiding in things that look utterly ordinary. In 2016, a researcher working in Montana spotted a small, reddish-brown rock while searching for fossils. It […]
A team of paleontologists discovered an anatomically modern feather inside a coprolith—fossilized heces—of a theropod, probably a young specimen of tyrannosaur, found at the Hell Creek site in Montana, United States. The finding, published in Current Biology magazine, confirms that this type of plumage had already developed 66 million years ago in lineages of birds that ended up dying out. Research suggests that the key to the survival of certai…
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