76 Australian GeographicWATCH
Use the free viewa app to scan this
page and see a video about how new
techniques were used to determine
that a 150-million-year-old feather
from the 'fi rst bird' Archaeopteryx was
black, making it structurally strong.Fossil gold. In 2011 researchers at the University of
Alberta, Canada, discovered an incredible series of
Late Cretaceous feathers preserved in amber. Dated
to about 78 million years ago, many of them once
belonged to feathered dinosaurs. The structure of
some matched feather types known from Chinese
dinosaur fossils, but not seen in modern birds.ag0914_JohnsdinosP76 - 73 2014-08-11T16:16:25+10:00