Longest Feather Ever Found in Amber Offers Clues to Flight’s Origins

A pennaceous (vaned) feather trapped in Burmese amber about 99 million years ago, during the Cenomanian age of the Cretaceous period, is the longest three-dimensionally preserved example of its kind yet described. The post Longest Feather Ever Found in Amber Offers Clues to Flight’s Origins appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.