Dinosaur feathers frozen in time
'My life is light, like a feather on the back of my hand awaiting the death wind' -- Walter Tevis
Science • September 2011 • Views: 979
Since it’s getting so ugly over at TechCrunch, I thought I should provide an antidote of real beauty. Every now and then a scientific paper is published that hits it out of the park with imagery. Yesterday, McKellar el. al did just that in Science, publishing a smorgasbord of photographs of dinosaur and early bird feathers trapped in amber in addition to a truly stellar reconstruction of Sinosauropteryx by Chuang Zhao and Lida Xing.