# Dinosaur feathers preserved in amber **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 15, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinosaur-feathers-preserved-in-amber/596432 "2011-09-15T20:10:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![merrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@merrick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merrick)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinosaur-feathers-preserved-in-amber/596432/21 "2011-09-16T19:37:53Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > [hijack] Ursula is great. If you haven’t seen her other stuff, it’s well worth the look. She’s also the author of the [Digger](http://www.diggercomic.com/)comic, which I know some others on the Dope have read and liked. [/hijack] Indeed. I take no credit - I just saw that picture ages ago and this thread made me remember it. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinosaur-feathers-preserved-in-amber/596432/22 "2011-09-16T19:46:25Z")
> [@Mosier](#): > > Well even if it is dinosaur feathers, wouldn’t that just be proof that SOME dinosaurs had feathers, and not necessarily all of them? Oh, absolutely. And these feathers don’t prove anything - the reasoning would be circular (we think they’re dinosaur because they’re primitive - therefore dinosaurs had feathers!) There’s pretty darned good evidence for feathered dinosaurs, that’s been coming out of mostly China, in the raptor/R. Rex vein (bipedal carnivores) of the cretaceous - like tons of feather casts around dinosaur skeletons. But certainly not all dinosaurs. I don’t think there’s ever been evidence for the large sauropods being feathered, or the ceratopsians. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinosaur-feathers-preserved-in-amber/596432/23 "2011-09-16T20:32:28Z")
That is pretty cool. My son (I call him The Boy) is 4 and is right at that spot where kids really get into dinosaurs. He calls Utahraptors “Terrible Claws” and knows that Saltopus means “Jumping foot.” I got him a couple of dinosaur books and was suprised to see many of them actually had feathers – according to the theories, of course. I knew there was a link between birds and dinos, but this is an amazing discovery. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinosaur-feathers-preserved-in-amber/596432/24 "2011-09-18T02:04:57Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > I have pet birds. Having seen a parrot in full on RAR! I’M FURIOUS KILL KILL KILL! rage I have no trouble seeing a distant relationship between _T. rex_ and my cute little birdies. I don’t have pet birds but have been chased by both geese and swans with _I WILL KILL YOU_ in their evil little beady eyes. I have no problem with a dinosaur/bird connection! ---
**Author:** ![QuarkChild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c5a1d2/32.png) [@QuarkChild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuarkChild)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinosaur-feathers-preserved-in-amber/596432/25 "2011-09-18T16:16:45Z")
This reminds me of a cute story in the book Wesley the Owl, which is the true story of a biologist who raises a baby owl. When the owl was still tiny and not very feathered, the biologist took him to the grocery store, stuffed into her sweater with just his head hanging out (if I’m remembering correctly). She’s approached by a woman in the store who says, “Is that a dinosaur?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinosaur-feathers-preserved-in-amber/596432.md?page=1)