Amber specimen offers rare glimpse of feathered dinosaur tail
A dinosaur tail complete with its feathers has been discovered trapped in a piece of amber. Even though these aren’t the first to be found, earlier specimens have been difficult to definitively link to their source animal. This tail consists of eight vertebrae from a juvenile preserved in 3D with microscopic detail. Professor Mike Benton from the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol, former President of the...