Burma, is a piece of amber on the market: inside there is the tail feathery dinosaur – The Messenger

A dinosaur in a piece of amber. This would seem to be a joke from the crossword puzzle, and instead it is a discovery of extraordinary and fascinating. Made for the case in a market of Myanmar, where on a banquet there was this resin apparently as many that they sell to tourists distracted. The author of the “scoop” scientific, however, distracted was not the case at all. Also because Lida Xing’s job as a researcher at the University of geosciences of Beijing, and when last year he found this relic on the stalls of the burmese city of Myitkyina in Myanmar, he immediately thought that it was not a common piece of amber with plant material inside, as is often the case. Instead of taking it to a pres ent thought to analyze it better.

He called Ryan McKellar, curator of the field paleontology at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Canada and together with other scientists has investigated. Until the discovery exceptional: on the inside there was a queue of dinosaur with the feathers still intact. To be exact everything that belongs to a young celurosauro, of the family of carnivorous dinosaurs similar to birds and lived during the Cretaceous period, about 99 million years ago. A find one that tells original stories about the evolution of these mythical animals, which might have been more similar to birds than to reptiles.

How to tell: the true and real transvolata back in time and all thanks to a unique “carrier” of the ages as only amber knows how to be. And as has been reported in the recent study "A Feathered Dinosaur Tail with Primitive Plumage Trapped in Mid-Cretaceous Amber", published in Current Biology. Excited for the one that you will remember as the discovery of the most beautiful of his life Xing explained in an interview with the Cbc: “This is the first time that the material skeleton of a dinosaur has been found in amber. Previous finds in the amber included with feathers that insulated that can be belonged to dinosaurs, but without an identifiable part of the body including, their source has remained open to discussion”.