The amber, which weighs 6.5 grams, contains bone fragments and feathers, adding to mounting fossil evidence that many dinosaurs sported primitive plumage rather than scales. No scaly monster McKellar ...

While most paleontologists dig up prehistoric bones from the ground, Lida Xing hunts for fossils in the amber markets of Myanmar. In 2015, he made a remarkable find: Trapped in what looked like golden ...

Palaeontologists have found the feathered tail of a 99 million-year-old dinosaur encased in a piece of amber at a jewellery market in Myanmar. The discovery, outlined today in the journal Current ...

A fossilized find that scientists called a once in a lifetime discovery was almost made into jewelry this week. A Chinese paleontologist found the piece of amber that contained a 99-million-year-old ...

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A small collection of amber-trapped feathers that may have belonged to dinosaurs or birds 80 million years ago have been found in a Canadian museum collection. Ryan McKellar, a graduate student at ...

Atiny feathered dinosaur that lived in what is now northeastern China around 120 million years ago is offering researchers fresh clues about a pivotal chapter in dinosaur evolution. The remarkably ...