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Dinosaur Stuffed Animals (lemmy.world)
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[-] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

I wanted to say that we would not have loved the house-sized murder monsters....but then I remembered tigers...and Blåhaj.

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

Not to mention that most of them were not house-sized. Like this sinosauropteryx:

And yes - the colouring is accurate. We have ways of knowing now. Super exciting times for paleontology.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 6 points 5 months ago

And yes - the colouring is accurate. We have ways of knowing now.

How? I wanna know.

[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Okay, so I looked it up and as it turns out, yes, they think they can actually judge a dinosaur's color(s) based on fossilized melanosomes. Different shaped melanosomes correspond to different colors and "finishes" (iridescent, matte, glossy, etc), and they compare them with melanosomes from living animals to try and figure out what color(s) they might have had.

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I highly recommend reading Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost Word by Michael Benton. It's written by one of the people who worked on this research, it's neatly explained (along with a ton of other interesting things from the history of paleontology), there are absolutely adorable illustrations and it's written with a great sense of humour.

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Weasel raptor 💖

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