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Dinosaur Feather Color Discovered
anzha writes "Do you remember being a kid and told we'd never know what colors the dinosaurs were? For at least some, that's no longer true. Scientists working in the UK and China have closely examined the fossils of multiple theropods and actually found the colors and patterns that were present in the fossilized proto-feathers. So far, the answer is orange, black and white in banded and other patterns. The work also thoroughly thrashes the idea that fossils might not be feathers, but collagen fibers instead. If this holds up, Birds Are Dinosaurs. Period. And colorful!"
Would you kill a dinosaur for your shotgun?
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
tastes like dinosaurs?
My wife gets the kids dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets at the warehouse club. I've always thought that particularly poetic.
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More like a... six-foot turkey.
Do you remember being a kid and told we'd never know what colors the dinosaurs were?
I remember being told that we could in theory breed dinosaurs in test tubes by extracting blood from mosquitoes preserved in amber ...
Barney has always bothered me... Why are we teaching our children to play with a large and obviously dangerous carnivore?
A gentleman doesn't kiss and tell. And I'm not sure, but I think that applies to wild furniture-breaking monkey sex too. So I won't say!
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Time is an allusion.
Lunchtime doubly so.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Confuciusornis say, man who guess dinosaur feather color knows dinosaurs ex-tint.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Apparently, there [b]are[/b] also a lot of people out there that can't keep their grammar straight when pointing out spelling mistakes.
Apparently, there are also a lot of people out there that don't know how to use HTML tags properly.
This ain't rocket surgery.
You seem to be the dinosaur here.