Dinosaur True Colors Revealed for First Time

National Geographic ^ | 1/28/10 | Chris Sloan

[Nachum]

"Dino fuzz" pigment discovery in feathers may strengthen dinosaur-bird link.

Pigments have been found in fossil dinosaurs for the first time, a new study says.

The discovery may prove once and for all that dinosaurs' hairlike filaments—sometimes called dino fuzz—are related to bird feathers, paleontologists announced today. (Pictures: Dinosaur True Colors Revealed by Feather Find.)

The finding may also open up a new world of prehistoric color, illuminating the role of color in dinosaur behavior and allowing the first accurately colored dinosaur re-creations, according to the study team, led by Fucheng Zhang of China's Institute for Vertebrate Paleontology.

The team identified fossilized melanosomes—pigment-bearing organelles—in the feathers and filament-like "protofeathers" of fossil birds and dinosaurs from northeastern China.

[Nachum]

Cool beans

[SatinDoll]

Ditto!

As time goes by paleontologists keep discovering more surprising things about dinosaurs.

[alancarp]

As anyone knows, the true color of dinosaurs is BLUE.

[LiteKeeper]

Another lie from National Geographic

[centurion316]

I thought that all dinosaurs were purple. At least that’s what PBS says.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Any “science” reported in NG is suspect.

Amazing photos though.

I don’t read the articles, I only look at the pictures.

[BenKenobi]

Interesting. Looks very warm blooded, no?

[Blue Collar Christian]

The artist’s concept looks a lot like it could support the current tendency to say birds came from the dinos...kind of an update from the old Fantasia science...

We’ll see what’s to be said in 50 more years as we learn that everything we knew is wrong...

They’ll prove we came from apes when monkeys fly out of my butt.

[ApplegateRanch]

*ping*

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[GSP.FAN]

No that is just the gay ones ,you are being silly now.

[fanfan]

LOL, yeah, It's not as if they are trying to tell us that man domesticated Dinosaurs.

Nobody would believe that.
;-)

[fanfan]

Thanks for the ping, Civ.

[To Hell With Poverty]

Ha, that one has a tail like my kitty.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) My pleasure.

[Beowulf9]

“They’ll prove we came from apes when monkeys fly out of my butt.”

and I hope I am not there on THAT day.

[Yardstick]

Dinosaur’s got some mighty tasty looking drumsticks.

[Beowulf9]

“They’ll prove we came from apes when monkeys fly out of my butt.”

My husband wants to know just how long have they been in there?!!!

[wendy1946]

And all of those pigments are 65,000,000 years old I assume??

[Blue Collar Christian]

They are not there, they never will be there.