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Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber!
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Dinosaur tail found preserved in amber!
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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Clearly a beaver tail from just before the flood.
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Ken Sham has already debunked it. :eyesroll:
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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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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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This is god testing the faithful.
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(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.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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satan created this forgery !!
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For reference, here's AiG's response:

https://answersingenesis.org/dinosaurs/f...-in-amber/

AnswersinGenesis Wrote:We conclude that DIP-V-15103 is a bird, and not a 99-million-year-old theropod dinosaur. This is supported by the discovery of 99-million-year-old bird wings including bones and feathers found by Lida Xing et al. in the same type of Burmese amber as DIP-V-15103.3 I reject the age assigned to these fossils, but it shows that small birds, perhaps juveniles, left evidence of their unquestionably bird-like anatomy in Burmese amber. So where is the evolution?

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(December 12, 2016 at 10:26 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: 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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All I want to know is when are they gonna clone it?
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