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Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber!
December 12, 2016 at 10:26 pm
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2016 at 10:26 pm by Simon Moon.)
99 million year old dino tail was found preserved in amber.
And it has feathers!
Let's see the creationists explain this one away...
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dino...r-feathers
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RE: Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber!
December 12, 2016 at 10:32 pm
Clearly a beaver tail from just before the flood.
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RE: Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber!
December 12, 2016 at 10:35 pm
Ken Sham has already debunked it. :eyesroll:
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RE: Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber!
December 12, 2016 at 10:40 pm
I'd seen another article about this sometime last week, and it's possible that they will find more amber deposits. Whether or not they'll find more dinosaur fossils remains to be seen, but it would be great if this leads to more information on things like coloration.
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RE: Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber!
December 12, 2016 at 10:42 pm
Goddammit, I still haven't come to terms with dinosaurs that aren't Archaeopteryx having feathers and seeing a dinosaur tail with this many feathers is actually more jarring than I would have expected.
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RE: Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber!
December 12, 2016 at 10:43 pm
This is god testing the faithful.
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RE: Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber!
December 12, 2016 at 10:49 pm
(December 12, 2016 at 10:42 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Goddammit, I still haven't come to terms with dinosaurs that aren't Archaeopteryx having feathers and seeing a dinosaur tail with this many feathers is actually more jarring than I would have expected.
I die a little on the inside anytime I see an image of a velociraptor covered in feathers.
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RE: Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber!
December 12, 2016 at 10:51 pm
satan created this forgery !!
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