'Once in a lifetime find': Dinosaur tail discovered trapped in amber
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Source: CNN
The tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur has been found entombed in amber, an unprecedented discovery that has blown away scientists.
Xing Lida, a Chinese paleontologist found the specimen, the size of a dried apricot, at an amber market in northern Myanmar near the Chinese border.
The remarkable piece was destined to end up as a curiosity or piece of jewelry, with Burmese traders believing a plant fragment was trapped inside.
"I realized that the content was a vertebrate, probably theropod, rather than any plant," Xing told CNN.
The tail section belongs to a young coelurosaurian -- from the same group of dinosaurs as the predatory velociraptors and the tyrannosaurus
Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/08/health/dinosaur-tail-trapped-in-amber-trnd/index.html
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So I'm online from 4:00 AM central, where I live, to 5:00 PM PST, when my buds call it a day.
But I do take naps in between. 
Yes. Naps are a good thing!
I also don't want to come off as dissing China or the Chinese but actual Chinese scientists have voiced their concerns about prehistoric counterfeits coming out of China.
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1888548,00.html
