Orange Stripey Dinosaurs? Fossil Feathers Reveal Their Secret Colors
source: http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2010/01/orange_stripey_dinosaurs_fossi.php
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While looking at museum dioramas that feature dinosaurs, I often overhear people asking "How do they know what color dinosaurs were?" The truth is that artists and scientists they didn't know -- until now. A new paper was just published in Nature that carefully examines fossilized plumage and comes to an interesting conclusion: scientists can identify at least some of the original colors in ancient feathers.
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