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A new dinosaur ?
Dinosaurs first appeared 235 million years ago and , unfortunately , they disappeared 65 million years ago . While we , humans , thought that we knew all of the dinosaurs that could have possibly existed , a new discovery changes everything : the tail of a new kind of dinosaur was discovered in Amber .
It is our very first time to discover a body-part of a dinosaur in Amber . In fact , this dinosaur has feathers . So can we say that it could fly ? Can we consider this animal as a pre-historic bird ?
According to Ryan McKellar , curator of invertebrate paleontology at Canada ' s Royal Saskatchewan Museum , “ the dinosaur feathers feature a poorly defined central shaft ( rachis ) and appear to keel to either side of the tail . The open , flexible structure of the feathers is more similar to modern ornamental feathers than to flight feathers , which have well-defined central shafts , branches , sub-branches , and hooks that latch the structure together .” Unfortunately , this dinosaur is most likely incapable of flying .
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