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Dinosaur Colours
Topic Started: Feb 1 2010, 02:52 AM (622 Views)
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Everyone remembers when they worked out how to tell the colour of a 47 million year old bird's feathers right? Well now they've done it on a 125 million year old Sinosauropteryx from China.

Dinosaur colour

Apparently it had a striped tail and a red crest.
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:D Sounds pretty!
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Science always amazes me. Also cool. And it does sound rather fetching.
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Awesome! Now all they need to do is make the first accurate artist's rendition!
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At least now we can make right color representations for most feathered and furry animals. That technique can also be used in.... pretty much any fossil feather or fur.
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That technique can also be used in.... pretty much any fossil feather or fur.

If the fossil evidence is present. As the article pointed out, paleontologists are lucky to find skin or feathers at all, let alone evidence of pigmentation.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123018405

Some good artist's renderings there
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Huh, they also did it on a Confuciusornis, sounds like a colourful bird.
Another problem with testing for the colour this way is that it damages the fossil so not many fossil will probably have these done to them.
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Now we know the true colour of yet another feathered dinosaur - Anchiornis!
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Awesome! I wonder what they'll find next.
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The colours of a Microraptor.
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If I might stray off the path of theropods, does anyone remember that 'mummified' Edmontosaurus they found in Hells Creek? I may be wrong, but didn't they find that it had a striped pattern?
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I think the actual colours were faded.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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