Scientists Solve Mystery of 100-Million-Year-Old Amber Layer on Seafloor

Scientists Solve Mystery of 100-Million-Year-Old Amber Layer on Seafloor

Amber found on seafloor. Credit: Lanzi / CC BY-SA 3.0 Scientists in northern Japan have resolved the mystery behind the amber layer on the seafloor. They uncovered evidence that a powerful tsunami may have carried large amounts of tree resin into the ocean more than 100 million years ago, leaving behind one of the oldest known geological traces of such an event. The discovery was made in the Shimonakagawa Quarry on the island of Hokkaido, where …

A dinosaur feather and down discovered in Jordanian amber dates back 140 million years. - Jordan News | Latest News from Jordan, MENA

Scientists say that feathers evolved from lizard scales 250 million years ago, 20 million years before the appearance of dinosaurs and 110 million years before the appearance of birds.