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Published on 8 Dec 2016
An
extraordinarily well-preserved dinosaur tail, with a fluffy covering of
feathers, lies trapped within a piece of amber. The animal it belonged
to would have lived about 99 million years ago. Researchers from China
and Canada identify it as a juvenile of some type of coelurosaur, a
group that includes birdlike dinosaur species that walked on two legs.
But because the bones of the tail are flexible and not fused as in a
bird’s tail, the specimen must be a terrestrial dinosaur rather than an
actual bird. Lida Xing, first author of the study announcing the
discovery, found the amber for sale in a northern Myanmar (Burma)
market.
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