Mena: This is a wonderful fossil of young bird caught in amber 100 million years ago. This 100 million years old bird legs looks like a modern bird legs. if a modern bird can be 100 million years old then modern human or Homo Sapiens can be 1 million years old.I am waiting for the body of a 1 million years old Homo Sapiens to be found in a coal block or in Antartica ice or in a giant amber.
Bird caught in amber 100 million years ago is best ever found By Michael Le Page
science Lida Xing, Jingmai K. O'Connor, Ryan C. McKellar, Luis M. Chiappe, Kuowei Tseng, Gang Li, Ming Bai Insects are not the only creatures that got stuck in amber during the time of the dinosaurs. Bits of ancient birds and dinosaurs have been found too – and now the most complete bird yet has been found.
A 100-million-year-old chunk of amber found in Myanmar contains the head, neck, wing, tail and feet of a hatchling. It was just a few days old when it fell into a pool of sap oozing from a conifer tree.
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“It’s the most complete and detailed view we’ve ever had,” says Ryan McKellar of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Regina, in Canada, a member of the team that described the find. “Seeing something this complete is amazing. It’s just stunning.”
While it looks as if the actual skin and flesh of the bird are preserved in the amber, it’s basically a very detailed impression of the animal, McKellar says. Studies of similar finds show the flesh has broken down into carbon – and there’s no usable DNA, fans of Jurassic Park will be disappointed to learn.
15-11-30_143108_M=B_R=8_S=4 Xing Lida The amber does preserve some of the feather colours – but in this case they are not terribly exciting, McKellar admits. “They were little brown jobbies.”
Reconstruction Reconstruction Cheung Chung Tat The unfortunate youngster belonged to a group of birds known as the ‘opposite birds’ that lived alongside the ancestors of modern birds and appear to have been more diverse and successful – until they died out with the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
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Previous fossil finds and a couple of wings preserved in amber suggest that opposite birds hatched with flight feathers, ready to fend for themselves.
The new find adds to this evidence, as the hatchling had a full set of flight feathers and was growing tail feathers – but oddly it mostly lacked body feathers rather than being covered in down like today’s hatchlings.
They probably hatched on the ground and climbed into trees, says McKellar, making them particularly likely to get stuck in sap.
Close up of the wing Close up of the wing Ming BAI
Xing Lida In appearance, opposite birds likely resembled modern birds, but they had a socket-and-ball joint in their shoulders where modern birds have a ball-and-socket joint – hence the name. They also had claws on their wings, and jaws and teeth rather than beaks – but at the time the hatchling lived, the ancestors of modern birds had not yet evolved beaks either.
The amber containing the bird was collected by a museum in China several years ago. When it realised what it had, the museum contacted Lida Xing of the China University of Geosciences in Beijing, who led the team that described the find.
Why the opposite birds died out while the ancestors of modern birds survived is not clear, but the lack of parental care may have played a part. Most modern birds require parental care – the brush turkey of Australia (which is no relation to American turkeys) is one of the few exceptions.
The incredibly well-preserved 100 million-year-old baby bird that lived at the time of the dinosaurs: 'Simply stunning' Myanmar amber find reveals hatchling trapped in tree sap Bird was a few days old when it fell into a pool of sap oozing from a conifer The amazing find shows the head, neck, wing, tail and feet of now extinct bird Had flight feathers and was growing tail feathers, but lacked body feathers Was part of a group known as the 'opposite birds' that lived alongside the ancestors of modern birds but died out
The 'most complete hatchling specimen' ever to be seen has been unearthed by scientists. An international team of experts made the stunning find, which has been encased in this 3-inch piece of amber, in China
While it looks as if the actual skin and flesh of the bird are preserved in the amber, the amber shows a very detailed impression of the animal. Amber miners who found the specimen thought that they had found a 'strange' lizard's claw until they realised it was a bird
The amber even preserve some of the feather colours, although the researcher admit they are a boring brown
In appearance, opposite birds likely resembled modern birds, but they had a socket-and-ball joint in their shoulders where modern birds have a ball-and-socket join, a difference which led to their name (artist's impression pictured)
It is the most detailed glimpse of bird life 100 million years ago ever seen. Researchers have revealed a stunning hatchling trapped in amber, which they believe was just a few days old when it fell into a pool of sap oozing from a conifer tree in Myanmar. The incredible find shows the head, neck, wing, tail and feet of a now extinct bird which lived at the time of the dinosaurs in unprecedented detail. The 'most complete hatchling specimen' ever to be seen has been unearthed by scientists. An international team of experts made the stunning find, which has been encased in this 3-inch piece of amber, in China +6 The 'most complete hatchling specimen' ever to be seen has been unearthed by scientists. An international team of experts made the stunning find, which has been encased in this 3-inch piece of amber, in China THE OPPOSITE BIRDS
The hatchling belonged to a group of birds known as the 'opposite birds' that lived alongside the ancestors of modern bird.
Archaeologists say they were actually more diverse and successful – until they died out with the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
They had major differences from today's birds, and their shoulders and feet had grown quite differently to those of modern birds.
Researchers have nicknamed the young enantiornithine 'Belone', after a Burmese name for the amber-hued Oriental skylark. 'It's the most complete and detailed view we've ever had,' Ryan McKellar of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Regina, in Canada, a member of the team that described the find, told New Scientist. 'Seeing something this complete is amazing. It's just stunning.' The hatchling belonged to a group of birds known as the 'opposite birds' that lived alongside the ancestors of modern birds and , archaeologists say, were more diverse and successful – until they died out with the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. 'We report on the most complete bird preserved encased in Amber uncovered to date, including most of the skull and neck, a partial wing and hindlimb, and soft tissue of the tail, the morphologies of which refer this specimen to the Enantiornithes,' the researchers wrote in Gondwana Research. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next
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Russian billionaire's plans for a floating nation in SPACE... SHARE THIS ARTICLE Share 191 shares While it looks as if the actual skin and flesh of the bird are preserved in the amber, the amber shows a very detailed impression of the animal. Amber miners who found the specimen thought that they had found a 'strange' lizard's claw until they realised it was a bird +6 While it looks as if the actual skin and flesh of the bird are preserved in the amber, the amber shows a very detailed impression of the animal. Amber miners who found the specimen thought that they had found a 'strange' lizard's claw until they realised it was a bird +6 Researchers have nicknamed the young enantiornithine 'Belone', after a Burmese name for the amber-hued Oriental skylark. Pictured here are preserved feathers that show that the hatchling died during its first feather molt +6 Researchers have nicknamed the young enantiornithine 'Belone', after a Burmese name for the amber-hued Oriental skylark. Pictured here are preserved feathers that show that the hatchling died during its first feather molt 'The proportions of the bird and morphology of the plumage indicate a very young individual, adding the mounting data that the Enantiornithes were highly precocial; however, the scarcity of body feathers represents a distinct departure from living precocial birds. The amber even preserve some of the feather colours, although the researcher admit they are a boring brown. Previous fossil finds have led researchers to believe the 'opposite birds' hatched with flight feathers making them able to fend for themselves. The hatchling had a full set of flight feathers and was growing tail feathers, but lacked body feathers. The amber even preserve some of the feather colours, although the researcher admit they are a boring brown +6 The amber even preserve some of the feather colours, although the researcher admit they are a boring brown 'The plumage includes filamentous body feathers that resemble proto-feathers, scutellae with distal bristle-structures, mature remiges, and erupting ornamental rectrices, revealing an unexpected diversity of primitive and derived feather morphotypes present in the plumage of early birds,' the team wrote. They probably hatched on the ground and climbed into trees, says McKellar, making them particularly likely to get stuck in sap. Birds are believed to have evolved around 150 million years ago, when a group of meat-eating dinosaurs spread their wings and took to the skies. They then split into two distinct groups: the lineage that led to modern birds, called the ornithuromorphs, and the opposite birds, or enantiornithines - of which this bird belongs. In appearance, opposite birds likely resembled modern birds, but they had strange shoulder bones. The area where the shoulder blade met the shoulder girdle was convex. This means they had a socket-and-ball joint in their shoulders where modern birds have a ball-and-socket joint. The difference led to their name. They also had claws on their wings, and jaws and teeth rather than beaks, which had not yet evolved in any birds. The amber containing the bird was collected by a museum in China several years ago. When it realised what it had, the museum contacted Lida Xing of the China University of Geosciences in Beijing, who led the team that described the find.
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All birds have claws on their wings, very tiny.
Nice find Mena.
It is very likely that a few primate infants similarly fell from tree branches, nests or off their mother's body, and landed on soft soil or swamp, close to the tree base where sap would leak out and eventually preserve as amber. But an entire monkey or ape or hominin infant being preserved like this would be extremely rare.
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100 MILLION Year Old BABY BIRD Found Trapped In Amber https://youtu.be/qwlrj6Ju-W0 In this video I notice how Mike Chen is saying Myanmar the name of the country were the 100 million years old bird trapped in amber was found. He pronounce the name of the country Mayan mar. me i pronounce the name of the country Myan mar. But in Mayan mar or Maya nmar we can see the name of the Maya people and civilization. The Mayan pyramid are very similar to pyramids in Indonesia and Cambodia. According to some alternative historian the Mayan people migrated from Ancient Egypt to Indonesia and Indochina (SE Asia) to Central America. Another theory is the Mayan migrated from Indochina and Indonesia to Central America. According to Stephen Mrhler book the land of Busris Mayan hieroglyph was discovered inside an Ancient Egyptian Temple.The word Maya means water in the Ancient Egyptian language and means illusion in the Hindu language.
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