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Remarkable feathered dinosaur tail found in chunk of amber

Reuters: Science - Posted: December 8th, 2016, 10:39pm UTC

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some 99 million years ago, a juvenile dinosaur got its feathery tail stuck in tree resin, a death trap for the small creature. But its misfortune is now giving scientists unique insight into feathered dinosaurs that prospered during the Cretaceous Period.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=GL25DIunFZ8:zjS6h1zBaDg:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=GL25DIunFZ8:zjS6h1zBaDg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=GL25DIunFZ8:zjS6h1zBaDg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=GL25DIunFZ8:zjS6h1zBaDg:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=GL25DIunFZ8:zjS6h1zBaDg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/GL25DIunFZ8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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