1st amber-preserved dinosaur remains

I haven't seen this story mentioned on imgur yet so I thought I'd share the cool news:

Xing Lida, a Chinese paleontologist, found the specimen at an amber market in northern Myanmar, where it was to be made into some kind of trinket. The Burmese traders thought it was merely a plant fragment inside. Xing Lida recognized it as a vertebrate and bought it.

The amber in fact contained the tail of a young coelurosaurian, a sparrow-sized dinosaur related to velociraptors and tyrannosaurus.

Most importantly, the amber contains both bone fragments and feathers, adding tangible evidence that many dinosaurs had plumage, not scales. Due to the amber's thorough preservation, the scientists were even able to decipher the coelurosaurian's pigmentation with some certainty--chestnut brown and white.

In addition to the bones and feathers, soft tissue and decayed blood were also found in the amber; unfortunately, no genetic material was preserved with it. We'll just have to wait a bit longer for some real world dinosaur cloning.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/08/health/dinosaur-tail-trapped-in-amber-trnd/index.html