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Experiment Will Determine Dinosaur's Skin Color

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-color-is-my-dinosaur dept.

AchilleTalon writes "One of the only well preserved dinosaur skin samples ever found is being tested at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron to determine skin color and to explain why the fossilized specimen remained intact after 70-million years. University of Regina physicist Mauricio Barbi said the hadrosaur, a duck-billed dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period (100-65 million years ago), was found close to a river bed near Grand Prairie, Alberta."

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  1. Re:Quite interresting by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Disclaimer: Not an expert

    On Slashdot, we assume that about everyone.

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  2. Re:Realistic Dinosaur costumes ... by ArcadeMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not the mama!

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  3. Can't we just instead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Judge them by the content of their character?

  4. The color of their skin????? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Instead of knowing the color of their skin, I would be more interested in knowing the content of their character.

  5. Re:Realistic Dinosaur costumes ... by Macgrrl · · Score: 1, Funny

    Worse still, what if they were purple.

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