`Blood amber` may be a portal into dinosaur times, but the fossils are an ethical ...
(WorldNews China)

(CNN)When it comes to dinosaurs, many of us think of towering skeletons dominating the atriums of the world`s great natural history museums. But it`s the tiniest fossils that have transformed paleontology over the past five years. Some of the field`s most extraordinary discoveries have come from amber: A dinosaur tail, parts of primitive birds, insects, lizards and flowers have all been found entombed in globs of 100 million-year-old tree resin. They offer a tantalizing, three-dimensional look at dinosaur times. The vivid creatures and plants look like they just died yesterday with soft tissue in place and details like skin, coloring, feathers, teeth, leaves and petals exquisitely preserved...