more fabulous dinosaurs! now 100% full color verified

[<RJMC>]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100127-dinosaurs-color-feathers-science/o/

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For the first time, scientists have decoded the full-body color patterns of a dinosaur, a new study in the journal Science says.

That may sound familiar, given last week's announcement of the first scientifically verified dinosaur color scheme.

But the previous research, published in Nature, had found pigments only on a few isolated parts of dinosaurs (see pictures)—and had used less rigorous methods for assigning colors to the fossilized, filament-like "protofeathers" found on some dinosaur specimens, say authors of the new report.

Both studies raise hopes that improved knowledge of dinosaur coloration could lead to insights into how some prehistoric animals behaved and why feathers evolved in the first place.

The subject of the new study—the 155-million-year-old Anchiornis huxleyi—turns out to have looked something like a woodpecker the size of a chicken, with black-and-white spangled wings and a rusty red crown (see animation above).

The color patterns on Anchiornis's limbs are "quite similar to the silver-spangled Hamburg chicken, a domestic breed of ornamental chicken," said ornithologist Richard Prum of Yale University. Prum is a co-author of the new study and has received funding from the Committee for Research and Exploration of the National Geographic Society (which owns National Geographic News).

Only a short time ago Anchiornis was completely unknown to science. The chicken-size dinosaur species' color patterns were decoded after the researchers had used a scanning electron microscope to study pigment samples taken from fossil feathers all over a specimen and then compared the samples to pigment from modern birds.

howewher I hope jurassic park dont get "reimagined" just to include the colorfull dinosaurs

 

[Darkside55]

Study reveals dinosaurs looked like spotty birds; in related news, interest in dinosaurs drops 1500%

 

[Lizardizzle]

posh, Darkside, this is a huge event!

also, that render looks like a spore creature. Look at it's legs!

 

[Vegeta897]

I don't like dinosaurs anymore

 

[MJ12]

I think they look even better than before. **** you guys.

 

[Remus]

Study reveals dinosaurs looked like spotty birds; in related news, interest in dinosaurs drops 1500%

I don't like dinosaurs anymore

This.

They can shove their research where the sun doesn't shine.
As far as I'm concerned dinosaurs look like they did in Jurassic Park.
If I ever make a 3d render of a T-Rex for example it will be like that, none of this feather bullshit.

 

[Danimal]

I think they look even better than before. **** you guys.

*brofist*

 

[Bad^Hat]

Study reveals dinosaurs looked like spotty birds; in related news, interest in dinosaurs drops 1500%

Research and development funding to projects attempting to recreate dinosaur DNA has also plummeted in the face of this news, scientists citing that feathers make them "a lot less ****able."

 

[Tyguy]

pics or it didn't happen..

 

[Bad^Hat]

pics or it didn't happen..

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100127-dinosaurs-color-feathers-science/o/

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HMM I WONDER WHERE YOU WOULD LOCATE SUCH A THING.

 

[<RJMC>]

This.

They can shove their research where the sun doesn't shine.
As far as I'm concerned dinosaurs look like they did in Jurassic Park.
If I ever make a 3d render of a T-Rex for example it will be like that, none of this feather bullshit.

is probably that not all dinosaurs where full feathered

some may have just a line of feathers in its back like the one showed in the other thread
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus#Skin_and_feathers

In 2004, the scientific journal Nature published a report describing an early tyrannosauroid, Dilong paradoxus, from the famous Yixian Formation of China. As with many other theropods discovered in the Yixian, the fossil skeleton was preserved with a coat of filamentous structures which are commonly recognized as the precursors of feathers. It has also been proposed that Tyrannosaurus and other closely related tyrannosaurids had such protofeathers. However, skin impressions from large tyrannosaurid specimens show mosaic scales.[63] While it is possible that protofeathers existed on parts of the body which have not been preserved, a lack of insulatory body covering is consistent with modern multi-ton mammals such as elephants, hippopotamus, and most species of rhinoceros. As an object increases in size, its ability to retain heat increases due to its decreasing surface area-to-volume ratio. Therefore, as large animals evolve in or disperse into warm climates, a coat of fur or feathers loses its selective advantage for thermal insulation and can instead become a disadvantage, as the insulation traps excess heat inside the body, possibly overheating the animal. Protofeathers may also have been secondarily lost during the evolution of large tyrannosaurids like Tyrannosaurus, especially in warm Cretaceous climates

and only the biped carnivorous have them like deynonichus and such and obviously other bird shaped dinosaurs

also the scale of the rendered dinosaur