Amazingly, the tail was found in a piece of polished amber that was about to be sold for jewellery by the owner, with scientists managing to establish where it had come from by tracking down the amber miner who had dug it up!

“This is the first time we’ve found dinosaur material preserved in amber” co-author of the discovery’s scientific journal, Ryan McKellar, told the BBC News.

“We can be sure of the source because the vertebrae are not fused into a rod or pygostyle as in modern birds and their closest relatives,” he explained. “Instead, the tail is long and flexible, with keels of feathers running down each side.”

From initial research, it is believed that the tail is from a coelurosaur, a specimen from the theropod group of dinosaurs, that also contains the tyrannosaur.

The first research of the finding has led the scientists to believe that the dinosaur was flightless and the feathers were probably for temperature regulation only.

This discovery has led the scientists to speculate the likelihood of finding a full, preserved dinosaur in the near future.

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