A widely viewed social media post wondered why the discovery of a dinosaur tail in amber wasn't making headlines in 2025.

A scientist chanced upon the specimen at a market in Myanmar. — -- A dinosaur tail preserved in amber has been discovered for the first time ever, researchers announced on Thursday in a paper ...

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In 2016, a team of scientists discovered a dinosaur tail, with its bones, tissues, feathers, and all preserved in amber. It was believed to be about 99-million-years-old at the time of its discovery.

While most paleontologists dig up prehistoric bones from the ground, Lida Xing hunts for fossils in the amber markets of Myanmar. In 2015, he made a remarkable find: Trapped in what looked like golden ...

A "weird", heavily armoured dinosaur just became stranger than palaeontologists even realised, following the discovery of new fossils. The Spicomellus, a 165-million-year-old type of armoured dinosaur ...

When bipedal dinosaurs walked, they probably strode with a swagger, swishing their tails up and down for the same reason humans swing their arms when they walk. Traditionally, dinosaur tails have been ...

Apatosaurus had a 50-foot-long tail. (National Park Service Illustration / Bob Walters / Tess Kissinger) The dinosaur formerly known as Brontosaurus could certainly do a lot of damage with its long ...

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Dec 1 (Reuters) - More than half a millennium ago, Aztec warriors brandished a weapon called a macuahuitl, a wooden club with jagged obsidian blades embedded on its sides, to inflict gruesome wounds ...

The Spinosaurus possessed a long, powerful tail. Paleontologists think the dinosaur used that to propel itself through water. By Kenneth Chang An enigmatic predatory dinosaur that lived in northern ...