Feathered Tail Preserved In Amber Belonged To A Baby Dinosaur

Kim Bussing
Sun, 08 Jan 2017 13:48:45 -0800

In 2015, while browsing at a market in Myanmar, Lida Xing, a paleontologist at Beijing’s China University of Geosciences, was offered a piece of amber. Believed to contain a preserved plant it was meant for use as jewelry. Suspecting that the semitranslucent precious stone was harboring something more valuable, the scientist convinced the Dexu Institute of Paleontology to purchase it.