Scientists Begin to Identify the Colors and Patterns of Dinosaurs

This is just plain cool and will hopefully set off a run of sweet new dinosaur-related movies.

In the new study, Michael Benton, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol, and colleagues have analyzed the structures of what appear to be feathers and say that they match the feathers of living birds down to the microscopic level. And they used those microscopic features to determine what color the ancient feathers were.

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