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Posted by: pyderi 5 months, 3 weeks ago

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The hundred-million-year-old plumage retained in Amber was found by Vincent Perriot of the University of Kansas's Paleontological Institute. There's a chance that this fossil might explain how dinosaurs gave rise to birds whish is an unanswered question to the sciences. Either way, the amber-encased feathers show for the first time the transition

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engineer5 months, 3 weeks ago

Great story. Paleontology is very interesting. I wonder if we will be able to clone the dinosaurs themselves
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  BoxMonkey5 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Do we really need T-Rex walking about eating our cattle amongst other things ?
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    Teech5 months, 3 weeks ago
    
    .....Or is it possible that the feather in question came from......of all things....a bird?
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      BoxMonkey5 months, 3 weeks ago
      
      Never happen , too simple .
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rdy2rck5 months, 3 weeks ago

Excellant.
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Francisca5 months, 3 weeks ago

Thanks Pyderi! Interesting....Jurassic Park wasn't a fiction! Without joking: it's the kind of discovery that creationnists don't like very much (I believe)LOL
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Endoscopy5 months, 3 weeks ago

I got server not found. My question is how was the feather dated. Carbon 14 doesn't go back that far and is very imprecise as far as it goes back. The other method uses a tautology of the fact that it is in a particular layer. Those dinosaurs are that old because they are in that layer. That layer is that old because those dinosaurs are in it.
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  jimdoze5 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  How old do you suppose this specimen might be then?
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  Klarissa5 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  the age of the amber would help, and the surrounding layers of matter.
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  smithichie5 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Radiocarbon dating isn't the only radiometric dating method, other elements such as Uranium/lead and Potassium/Argon allow us to go far beyond the 50-60,000 year age limit using Carbon 14. Dating methods such as this allow us to date particular geological layers with more reliability than just saying, 'dinos are in that layer, so it's that old'.
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  splitrch5 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  I got server not found too.
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pyderi5 months, 3 weeks ago

200 million years more or less

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ETproductions5 months, 3 weeks ago

Drat. It sure looked like a bird to me. I downed that critter back in the Mesozoic Era. Sorry, reptiles.
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markoller5 months, 3 weeks ago

I never realized that there was two hundred million year old amber. This is a working website: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03...
I would like to know which website pyderi used, so a working address can be found.

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permanentrich5 months, 3 weeks ago

great story, very interesting era
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