Hasta La Ideas

Once upon a time, everyone assumed dinosaur skin looked like this:

Now we find out, according to a team of Yale researchers led by professor Richard Prum, that there were dinosaurs that actually looked like this:

Feathers? Black and white stripes? Orange accents? We know what you’re thinking–how they heck would they know all of this? In fact, by analyzing fossils researchers can determine color right “down to individual feathers.” Read about the science behind it here.

via cnet

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