Longest Feather Ever Found in Amber Offers Clues to Flight’s Origins

Nov 8, 2026 - 12:15
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Longest Feather Ever Found in Amber Offers Clues to Flight’s Origins
Morphology of ECNU A0033, the largest known pennaceous feather embedded in amber. Image credit: Zhang et al., doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2026.09.020.

A pennaceous (vaned) feather trapped in Burmese amber about 99 million years ago, during the Cenomanian age of the Cretaceous period, is the longest three-dimensionally preserved example of its kind yet described.

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