Feathered Dinosaur tail found in amber in China. Proof of evolution?

[Skeet Kuhn Dough]

Soooo... this tail was found in amber. It belongs to a dinosaur. "A segment from the feathered tail of a dinosaur that lived 99 million years ago is preserved in amber. A Cretaceous-era ant and plant debris were also trapped in the resin." I doubt I'm the only one excited about this? Any opinions? Here's the link http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/feathered-dinosaur-tail-amber-theropod-myanmar-burma-cretaceous/

 

[chemphlegm]

where in the heck are all the humanoids that are still evolutionizing? monkeys are not turning into men, except here once in awhile I guess...
maybe it happens cyclicly? like every 25k years a beam of evolutionizing particle beam programming happens to hit our planet.

One day we're cave painting the next we're writing poems and have eyeglasses. We ride the ass of a horse for countless years then, all of a sudden we're on the moon.

one day growing really good weed was an elusive talent earned with study and perseverance and ancestry and now, in just 8 yrs in MI, everyone thinks they can grow really good weed as long as they have a card, or sumpin like that

 

[Fogdog]

Soooo... this tail was found in amber. It belongs to a dinosaur. "A segment from the feathered tail of a dinosaur that lived 99 million years ago is preserved in amber. A Cretaceous-era ant and plant debris were also trapped in the resin." I doubt I'm the only one excited about this? Any opinions? Here's the link http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/feathered-dinosaur-tail-amber-theropod-myanmar-burma-cretaceous/View attachment 3852291

Such a cool find. Just shows how little we understand about the world around us. My first thoughts were about how this changes our conception of dinosaurs and what they looked like. But also it just locks in place the idea that birds descended from them.

Oh and OUCH for the critter who lost the tip of its tail.

 

[Skeet Kuhn Dough]

And I keep thinking about that ant. Just like today they were scurrying around the dinosaurs' feet. Fulfilling their little missions. 99 million years ago. Crazy to think about.

 

[Big_Lou]

Sure, being so closely related to birds and all....

 

[Skeet Kuhn Dough]

Makes me wonder how much wonderful information is right beneath our own feet. More shit preserved in amber and more. I wonder what kind of fossils antarctica has tucked away.

 

[Big_Lou]

I wonder what kind of fossils antarctica has tucked away.

Careful with that line of thinking.....I heard about there being much more than feathered lizards under some of that ancient ice.....

 

[Skeet Kuhn Dough]

Careful with that line of thinking.....I heard about there being much more than feathered lizards under some of that ancient ice.....


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Do you like the one with Kurt Russel better, @Big_Lou ?

 

[Big_Lou]

Do you like the one with Kurt Russel better, @Big_Lou ?

I'm honestly a fan of all three, man. I love the Hawks original, the 82 Carpenter version, and the recent 'prequel' is fairly solid, as well. (If I were forced to choose, though, it'd probably be the Carpenter film. Nearly perfect on every level.)

If you're a fan, read the original story:



....And check out this recent short story, it won a bunch of awards a few years back:
(It's a take on the events from the Thing's perspective, very interesting.)

http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/

 

[Skeet Kuhn Dough]

I'm honestly a fan of all three, man. I love the Hawks original, the 82 Carpenter version, and the recent 'prequel' is fairly solid, as well. (If I were forced to choose, though, it'd probably be the Carpenter film. Nearly perfect on every level.)

If you're a fan, read the original story:

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....And check out this recent short story, it won a bunch of awards a few years back:
(It's a take on the events from the Thing's perspective, very interesting.)

http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/

I'll check that out. I knew that there was an even older movie than the Kurt Russel one. I like that one best. Hey, did you ever see the 1993 version of the Body Snatchers? That has a lot of different adaptations as well but I think I still like this one the best.

 

[Big_Lou]

I'll check that out. I knew that there was an even older movie than the Kurt Russel one. I like that one best. Hey, did you ever see the 1993 version of the Body Snatchers? That has a lot of different adaptations as well but I think I still like this one the best.

I'm not a fan of the 93 Body Snatchers, dude. The 70s version, though, is awesome. The 50s original is a bit dated now, but it's also a total classic.

 

[Skeet Kuhn Dough]

I'm not a fan of the 93 Body Snatchers, dude. The 70s version, though, is awesome. The 50s original is a bit dated now, but it's also a total classic.

Whaaaaat? Why didn't you like the '93 version? It was no Troll 2, I admit, but whaaaaat?

 

[DemonTrich]

They just dug up a mastodon or 2 in michigan. A farmer found it getting his plot ready for the next crop.cycle.

 

[Douglas.Curtis]

Look up Michael Behe.

Even the most simple one-celled organisms are significantly more complex than evolutionary happenstance could create. It's looking like the population of this planet is definitely an intelligent design.

 

[A.K.A. Overgrowem]

Look up Michael Behe.

Even the most simple one-celled organisms are significantly more complex than evolutionary happenstance could create. It's looking like the population of this planet is definitely an intelligent design.

" More complex than evolutionary happenstance could create". Can you give a credible source for that statement?

 

[Douglas.Curtis]

I told you to go look up Behe.

The most amazing example is the flagella of a single cell organism. It's a friggin rotational stator motor with a rather high number of specific parts to it. Nothing which could 'just happen' due to evolution. Without even a single part, the flagella would not exist or would not work. There is no, "Oh, it happened by mutation" here.

 

[Skeet Kuhn Dough]

I told you to go look up Behe.

The most amazing example is the flagella of a single cell organism. It's a friggin rotational stator motor with a rather high number of specific parts to it. Nothing which could 'just happen' due to evolution. Without even a single part, the flagella would not exist or would not work. There is no, "Oh, it happened by mutation" here.

I did a quick search on Mr. Behe. He's a creationist and a college educated scientist. That's great. Just because you look at something and assume that it is intelligent design doesn't make it so. Then again, who truly knows???

 

[A.K.A. Overgrowem]

Behe has lost every case he has testified in. Against testimony of other phds his science doesn't hold up. The evolution of the Flagella has been known for years. You need to freshen up your mis-statements.

 

[texasjack]

where in the heck are all the humanoids that are still evolutionizing? monkeys are not turning into men, except here once in awhile I guess...
maybe it happens cyclicly? like every 25k years a beam of evolutionizing particle beam programming happens to hit our planet.

One day we're cave painting the next we're writing poems and have eyeglasses. We ride the ass of a horse for countless years then, all of a sudden we're on the moon.

one day growing really good weed was an elusive talent earned with study and perseverance and ancestry and now, in just 8 yrs in MI, everyone thinks they can grow really good weed as long as they have a card, or sumpin like that

Humans didn't evolve from monkeys. We both evolved from a proto simian. Humans are evolving. Our jaws have been shrinking for several hundred years. That's why we have to have our wisdom teeth out, no room.

 

[texasjack]

I told you to go look up Behe.

The most amazing example is the flagella of a single cell organism. It's a friggin rotational stator motor with a rather high number of specific parts to it. Nothing which could 'just happen' due to evolution. Without even a single part, the flagella would not exist or would not work. There is no, "Oh, it happened by mutation" here.

Yes it has. It takes millions of years. Do you know how many random things can happen in a million years? How about 100 million years? The main thing to understand evolution is the time scale. If earth history was a 24hr clock, humans have only existed for 1.5 seconds.