The real colour of dinosaurs
SCIENTISTS have produced the first ever full colour image of a dinosaur after finding colour-producing chemicals in a 150 million -year-old fossil.
The discovery could lead scientists to solve the mystery of what colour Tyrannosaurus rex and the triceratops really were.
Before making the new discoveries experts had only been able to guess dinosaur colouring.
A team of US and Chinese scientists examined 29 feather samples from the fossil and identified microscopic colour pigment cell bodies called melanosomes.
Different colours can be determined from their shape.
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