Dinosaur Feathers Discovered In Canadian AmberToday A Group Of Paleontologists Announced The Results

Dinosaur Feathers Discovered in Canadian Amber Today a group of paleontologists announced the results of an extensive study of several well-preserved dinosaur feathers encased in amber. Their work, which included samples from many stages in the evolution of feathers, bolstered the findings of other scientists who’ve suggested that dinosaurs (winged and otherwise) had multicolored and transparent feathers of the sort you might see on birds today. The researchers also presented evidence, based on the feathers’ pigmentation and structures, that today’s bird feathers could have evolved from dinosaur feathers. Read More | Photos © Science/AAAS

so the perth museum has a giant dinosaur in its lobby and for the next couple of months they have an exhibit on weddings and then this happened

treespeech:

Star Sand, found only on a few beaches in southern Japan, is made up entirely of the calcified shells of marine protozoa that once lived on the ocean floor.

Papercraft anatomy by Lisa Nilsson.

(via colossal)

Map of the supercontinent Pangaea in the Triassic period, when “first appeared beasties of fur and feather”.

The Tethys Ocean looks like it would have had nice beaches to lounge around on, hunting for nautilus shells, sipping Diño Coladas.

(by Richard Morden on Redbubble, available as a poster there if you’d like one!)