Flock of Feathers Preserved in Cretaceous Amber (3 of 10) (IMAGE)
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Overview of 16 clumped feather barbs in Canadian Late Cretaceous amber, specimen TMP 96.9.553. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Sept. 16, 2011, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. R.C. McKellar of University of Alberta in Edmonton, AB, Canada, and colleagues was titled, "A Diverse Assemblage of Late Cretaceous Dinosaur and Bird Feathers from Canadian Amber.”
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