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1 What colors were dinosaurs?
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
Some dinosaurs had russet-colored feathers, and one jazzy specimen had a Mohawk crest and stripes, researchers say in the first reports to confidently assign colors to dinosaurs.
Their colors have long been a subject of speculation among researchers and schoolchildren.
In the new study, reported in Thursday's online edition of the journal Science, scientists focused on melanosomes, which impart color.
They were able to assign color to individual feathers and thus work out color patterns for the entire fossil of Anchiornis huxleyi, a small, feathered, two-legged dinosaur that lived roughly 150 million years ago.
The animal would have weighed about four ounces (110 grams) and appears to have had a dark gray or black body and wings with some white feathers that gave it a stripe pattern, plus a reddish-brown crest and speckles on the face.
"This was no crow or sparrow, but a creature with a very notable plumage," said Richard O. Prum, professor of ornithology at Yale University and a co-author of the study.
