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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:Realistic Dinosaur costumes ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is a stupid comment bordering on retarded.

    As opposed to being abrasive bordering on flamebait? Good manners really do cost nothing you know. Jerk.