Color Feather in amber

Feathers in amber are not always to identify to the untrained eye and the pictures presented here are presented largely as "possible feathers". There are many instances whereby certain stress fractures or other living matter may have a shape or structure resembling a true feather. The picture below is of a surprisingly large piece of amber with what appears to be a large feather inside it, although this piece does not have other particularly revealing evidence of bird it does look very much like a bird feather in amber. Feathers in amber with eggs, birds and bird heads in amber are even more convincing and curious to most amber admirers. The picture below is of a small part of a very large feather in cretaceous amber taken using a microscope, a scale is provided on the image.