Colorizing Dinosaurs: Feather Pigments Reveal Appearance of Extinct Animals

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 18:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

For nearly two centuries, people have struggled to imagine what the great extinct dinosaurs looked like. Thanks to modern paleontology and physiology, their shapes, masses and even how they might have moved and interacted have been deduced. But one of the most basic questions about their appearance, their coloring, seemed unanswerable. [More]

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