How long until we find a dinosaur face preserved in amber?

>>2448719
>3 what?

>>2448709
Can we clone that fucker or not, though?

>>2448721
New meme

>>2448721
Three

>>2448709
We've got insects, flowers, fungi, lizards, a baby bird and recently a dinosaur tail. It's only a matter of time before we find a whole dino.

...what do his fossil guts look like?

>>2448735
He's encased in amber which mean he has amber guts.

>>2448709
After you die. You are going to miss it.

>>2448709
>they accidentally cut of the toes
fug

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>>2448709
>dinosaur face
You're gonna have to find a really small, dumb and slow dinosaur.
And you're gonna need a lot of amber just to preserve the face completely.

That would either be extremely rare, or just impossible

Aren't birds the most related to dinosaurs?
Would it be safe to assume they looked at least slightly similar?

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>>2448709
We've already done it. Same place and all.

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>>2449061

>>2448721
2

>>2448737
Well I wanna see.

>>2448722

No, even if it was perfectly preserved, the half life of the bonds in DNA is only like 500 years.

Even wooly mammoths or moas would be stretching it.

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>>2448929
I would've thought it's impossible, but then we got the baby dinosaur tail segment and this bird >>2449061

Most grown-up dinosaurs would've been very unlikely to get into a situation where their remains would end up fossilized like that. They were too big to end up encased inside amber, and they should've been strong enough to release themselves from it. But who knows, maybe there are more tiny baby dinos that got stuck in amber and couldn't get out.

>>2448721
Yes

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Not amber, but we got this guy. Don't think we'll be able to do much better than that.

>>2449394
why does it look so fake?

>>2449399
The black background and lighting makes is look like one of those Skyrim loading screens.

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>>2449394
>>2449399
It really is unbelievably well preserved. Shame that they cracked the fossil while they dug it up, because it's possible that the whole body was preserved.

They were even recently able to interpret its color scheme based on preserved color pigments on the fossil. In life it would be rust-colored on top and whiteish on the bottom, almost like a deer, which is interesting in itself because the animal was the size of a rhino. Theropod predation must have put serious selective pressure on other dinosaurs for an animal this large and well-armored to evolve a camouflage coloration.

>>2449411
fuck me that's really cool

>>2449411
>white underbelly

That's really cool to me. Drives me nuts that we don't what color most dinosaurs were. Im pretty iffy seeing large ones decked head to tail in stripes, spots and elaborate markings. I doubt suropods we're rocking rainbows but it's something.

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>>2449421
>I doubt suropods we're rocking rainbows but it's something.
Then again birds, the closest relatives we have today, can rock some hugely elaborate colorschemes.

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>>2449427
>closest relatives
dinosaurs are more related to reptiles than birds. Birds are an offshoot lineage that has went through so many changes comparing birds to dinosaurs in general is plainly idiotic.

>>2450377
birds are reptiles

>>2450377
retard

>>2450378
also a retard

Never because dinosaurs were invisible that's how they died.

>>2450392
Wouldn't that just mean you'd end up with what looks like a dinosaur shaped bubble in amber?

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>>2450377
my man, if you want the term "reptile" to encompass a clade, (basically what Sauropsida is) and not be some informal, polyphyletic term thats only use is to describe a set of characteristics shared by some organisms, then it has to be monophyletic, and for it to be monophyletic, it has to include birds/dinosaurs. most paleontologists nowadays subscribe to cladistics, and therefore agree that birds are dinosaurs (Dinosauria) are reptiles (Sauropsids). however, if you want "reptile" to be a paraphyletic term, then define it however you want; it just won't be a clade, which is a no-no if you follow cladistics, because the simplest solution is the best one, and it's simpler to just include birds in dinosauria which is in sauropsida (reptiles), rather than define "reptile" to exclude those groups, which is a more complicated (ergo less likely to be correct) solution. I think you should read some literature on the topic of mono/paraphyletics and cladistics in general before saying this kind of stuff. thanks for reading. forgive me if i'm remembering some of the details stated above incorrectly.

>>2450380
Birds lay eggs and dont have milk sacs.
If they are not mammals and not reptiles then what?

>>2450692
>If they are not mammals and not reptiles then what?
Then reptiles aren't a taxonomic classification.

And really they haven't been since the 1940's.

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>>2450377
>>2450679
>>2450692
>>2450719
it's a cladogram for primates, but this is the best demonstration of the comparison of a paraphyletic group, a monophyletic group and a polyphyletic group i have found.

"reptiles", as most people know them, is a paraphyletic classification.

>>2450377
found the Linnaeusfag

>>2448727
What fucking instance or scenario would an entire dino be covered in sap?

>>2452047
baby dino dies next to a tree

>>2448723
>new
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g81yD_InfdQ

>>2448721
Who are you quoting?

>>2449240
you misunderstand the concept of half lives, It takes 500 years for HALF the DNA to break down

that gives us about a million years before its utterly broke, Moa are among the most prime candidates for cloning with mammoths have a good shot at getting there entire genome in a usable state

>>2448724
and a half?

>>2448727
A whole dino in amber ? How the fuck ? Its fucking not possible because if we want a whole dino enselevated in amber, he has to made a fucking orgy with it

>>orgy dino with amber, we need a porn category