Tiny bird’s wings trapped in amber 99 million years ago

01 July 2016 - 16:33
By Bruce Gorton

Back when dinosaurs walked the earth‚ a tiny bird fought a different danger - sticky resin that covered its wings‚ trapping it for millions of years.According to Nature the a team of researchers led by Lida Xing‚ a palaeontologist at the China University of Geosciences in Beijing found the remains of two wings trapped in amber in north eastern Myanmar.

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