Longest Feather Ever Found in Amber Offers Clues to Flight’s Origins - Sci.News
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Longest Feather Ever Found in Amber Offers Clues to Flight’s Origins - Sci.News

Source:Sci.news
Author:Enrico de Lazaro

A pennaceous (vaned) feather trapped in Burmese amber about 99 million years ago, during the Cenomanian age of the Cretaceous period, is the longest three-dimensionally preserved example of its kind yet described.