Color?

Message 1169 of 2055

Have Paleontogists figured out what range of colors dinasours were? or might be) once over 12 feet they were not going to hide in the trees or brush to maybe these were colorful?
the little quick guys they might need to blend in. Or the suoer large herbivores. they could not hide. i bought the carnegie dinasur collection for my son whemn he was a kid. They were all diffrent shades of green but I always wondered why not reds, blacks yellow? Check out the face of a wild turkey and the intensity of the colors on it. sky blue surounded by a bright yellow with a streak of red. they still are ugly as heck though.

posted by yichel

I think that scientists are coming around to the idea that many of the dinosaurs might have been very brightly colored and that some of the large dorsal fins might have been to attract mates and were bright colored also . Add in the fact that they are discovering that many land bound dinosaurs were covered with feathers that makes it even more likely that they had bright colors and contrasting patterns .

posted by Dirck
over 2 years ago

Alas yichel I've often wondered the color schemes of dinosaurs also. Time has erased all physical evidence and we are left only with conjecture and supposition. The huge dorsal fins are thought to have been used for blood cooling purposes but wouldn't this have made them vulnerable or perhaps they didn't live in the vicinity of creatures at that time that might attack them? I'm saddened to think we'll never know.

posted by JwB58
over 2 years ago

i read about the feathers but couldnot recall so did a quick browse found theis easy article from National geographic

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what freaked me out is when they stated the dinasours they found that had feathers included the stegasourus and a type of triceratops. these ae big ones. what purpoe besides plumage could feather have offered? Again I only wish to see the color. i will keep hunting I know there must be a scientist with artistic genes that will allow him/her to hypothesize color and draw it. I am ready.

posted by yichel
over 2 years ago

I wonder at the audacity of science to guess at such things. Children group up believing what they see in picture books and they might not be even close. How would they know they had feathers. maybe they were like bats and had fur? The flying ones. I doubt they were scales but who knows, fact is unless like the mammoth someone comes across a frozen specimen we will never know. that would be awesome wouldn't it? Do you think that dinasaurs lived up there on the frozen tundra? Maybe they were wooly?

posted by Espirit
over 2 years ago

Espirit , they have unearthed fossils that are so well preserved that they can clearly see the feathers on some dinosaurs .

posted by Dirck
over 2 years ago

I checked out Mammal lik reptiles pretty omteresting around rgw triassic period I cannot remembe the name of the family but "dog like mouths. reptiles seemingly to have hair or at least the confirmation of mammels the fossil record show the tansition/
fossils that show feathers now that is incredible got to check that out.

posted by yichel
over 2 years ago