I seem to have ended up as the Dinosaur Feather Color Bureau Chief at the New York Times. After discovering colors in fossil bird feathers, scientists found colors in dinosaurs last week. But this week another group of scientists has got the color pattern across a dinosaur’s entire body.
Imagine:Silver Spangled Hamburgs of the Jurassic!
Image courtesy of National Geographic. Check out their 3-D version.
Originally published February 4, 2010. Copyright 2010 Carl Zimmer.