The next time you find a feather of some unknown bird while walking in the wild, don't throw it straight away – it might be millions of years old! In southeast Asia, feathers captured in resin belonging to something unique have been found from 80 million years ago. The creature looked like a dinosaur but was more related to birds. Some of the oldest ambers ever found was from the Triassic period, showing how long it can last. Let's take a look at this, and other secrets fossils are hiding. #brightside Credit: CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/: Ant in amber: By Brocken Inaglory, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2578419 Compsognathus: By Nobu Tamura, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19461632 By Anders L. Damgaard: Coleoptera Anobiidae: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8642510 Coleoptera Anobiidae 4: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8642720 Coleoptera Scraptiidae 3: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8645597 CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0: Lizard: By Stanislaw Pokrowski, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34545330 feathers: By Tiouraren, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=119717018 Glaesacarus rhombeus: By Hl1948, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59311313 By Anders L. Damgaard: Ant: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9038654 Ant 2: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9023852 Ant 9: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9038604 Ant 3: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9023866 Aphid 5: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9024185 amber inclusions: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9025321 CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0: By Oregon State University: Gecko legs: https://flic.kr/p/7o763W, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47807011 Salamander: https://flic.kr/p/wwzHCg, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42602835 Flea: https://flic.kr/p/yUL2tp, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47810440 Ensign wasp: https://flic.kr/p/2jKf9au, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=104985151 spider attack: https://flic.kr/p/deTPnw, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=106457390 CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/: Puzosia Bhimaites: By Yu et al, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86671015 Animation is created by Bright Side.
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