A 99-million-year-old piece of amber definitively proves that dinosaurs had feathers

A 99-million-year-old piece of amber definitively proves that dinosaurs had feathers

Scientists have discovered a feathered dinosaur tail trapped in a piece of 99-million-year-old amber, bought from an amber market in Myanmar. The specimen is definitive proof that two-legged dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex had bird-like feathers. While a dinosaur-era feather had been found embedded in amber in 2011 and again in June 2016, those small specimens…