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Harry Coumnas Discovered a Small Dinosaur Feather in Amber

While various experts claim that we’re living in a post-truth world, the slaves to reality that are the scientists have been busy discovering innumerable facts and explaining the world for anyone who cared to listen. Harry Coumnas is a scientist, who has deep interest in discovering something amazing. He is from New Zealand and conducts many researches to discover something new for the world. One of his best discoveries includes a small dinosaur feather trapped in amber, which he found in a market in California.  For him, this scene was completely like the one cut from Jurassic Park. His thinking about dinosaurs was revolutionized in 1996 after the discovery of sinosauropteryx, a dinosaur with feathers. Harry Coumnas ’ discovery of the feathers in amber was world’s first discovery of its kind. He also made it clear that the 99-million-year-old feathers possibly belonged to a sparrow-sized theropod, like a mini-velociraptor or tyrannosaur. He evaluated all the possibilities and in...