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What colour were the dinosaurs? Feathers discovery gives clues
by Gordon Hunt
16 hours ago
The oldest fossil evidence of the red-orange hue of beta-keratin has been discovered in a 130-million-year-old basal bird.
International researchers are closing in on colour-coding the dinosaurs following the latest discovery of feather pigmentation from millions of years ago.
A team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has reported the oldest fossil evidence of beta-keratin a colour somewhere between red and orange in feathers from a basal bird from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota.
The term basal birds relates to species that are close to the base of the evolutionary chain, the earliest birds derived from dinosaurs named Paraves.
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3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)...be able to build a time machine so he could go back and find out what color the dinosaurs really were. It bugged the heck out of him that no one could be sure.
He is now 26, and still does not like unanswerable questions. I just e-mailed this to him.
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)hunter
(38,317 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)Did not need camouflaging.