Most of you have probably already heard about this — I’m a bit late reporting on it — but it’s a fascinating discovery: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/feathered-dinosaur-tail-amber-theropod-myanmar-burma-cretaceous/ So much, it seems, for the dinosaur images and dinosaur figures that I grew up with. (I didn’t, contrary to popular fable, grow up with actual dinosaurs. The last one had died of old age several years before I was born.) Read more