micloch: DINOSAUR NEWS: This was recently brought to my attention yesterday but I wanted to wait unt

micloch:DINOSAUR NEWS:This was recently brought to my attention yesterday but I wanted to wait until yesterday to post. This 150-year feather, which was well preserved garnered new attention to older fossils due to its unusual story. This fossil feather was originally thought to be belonging to the popular species, Archaeopteryx. This mystery was finally solved. At the University of Hong Kong, they were able to use LSF imaging to distinguish if the feather was a primary or secondary along with figuring out how to match it because the fossilized feather’s quill was missing. However, the imaging process allowed the researchers to finally place the missing quill in its place. The result?It isn’t a primary feather or a secondary archaeopteryx feather. It belongs to an entirely new species, close in features and apart of the archaeopteryx’s family however it has a different feather. This discovery has also stirred a new task to review older fossils with newer technologies knowing that if we continue to review older found fossils we could be passing over a completely new species we’ve never even researched.  -- source link

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