Ancient OT: Jurassic park in real life....99 million year old bird
The movie Jurassic park premises the cloning of dinosaurs through DNA obtained from blood samples of preserved specimens trapped in amber (mosquito blood). in a case of real life exceeding Hollywood, a baby bird was found completely encased in amber. The estimate of the bird age is about 99 million years old and it's state of preservation is stunning.
For reference the T-Rex was on point about 60-85 million years ago...which puts this bird about 15 million years OLDER T-Rex.
"The remains of a baby bird from the time of the dinosaurs have been discovered in a specimen of 99-million-year-old amber, according to scientists writing in the journal Gondwana Research.
The hatchling belonged to a major group of birds known as enantiornithes, which went extinct along with dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period, about 65 million years ago. Funded in part by the National Geographic Society's Expeditions Council, this discovery is providing critical new information about these ancient, toothed birds and how they differed from modern birds.
This is also the most complete fossil yet to be discovered in Burmese amber. Mined in the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar, Burmese amber deposits contain possibly the largest variety of animal and plant life from the Cretaceous period, which lasted from 145.5 to 65.5 million years ago."
Credit: National Geographic, Kristen Romey, 6/7/2017
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/baby-bird-dinosaur-burmese-amber-fossil/
Be careful Santa Clause, people have been known to lose phone chargers while changing their eyewear.
LOL - amazing reference. You win.
"Man, fuck Jeff Goldblum"
in the amber? Were there places where there were floes of amber or pools that animals fell into?
Also, I can think of a couple Ambers I would love to be "trapped in"...
"Once you've seen one boobie you want to see them all"
it appears ready to tweet!
Thanks OP.
This is politics! I believe the world was created well before 99 million years ago and your "scientists" are libertards that hate Jesus! Please delete!
I'm absolutely joking, because creationists are morons, but you get my point.
There are no athiests in hell. What an appropriate user name.
I do feel obligated to point out that the half life of DNA in bone (the tissue most resistant to degradation) is 521 years, and scientists estimate that after ~1 million years of decay, it becomes impossible to reconstruct any gene sequences from a dead organism. The find is cool nonetheless.
Tiffani -AMBER Thiessen Traped in that and she cooks.
And useful too
It lived only a few days, yet it had a profound impact on the entire world 99 million years later.
Life is strange.