Dinosaurs may have used color as camouflage
Fossilized pigment pouches tell story of ancient animal’s habitat
HIDE AND SEEK Researchers hypothesized what sort of environment a parrot-beaked herbivore called Psittacosaurus (model shown) inhabited based on fossilized pigmentment patterns.
J. Vinther et al/Current Biol. 2016
The stories of dinosaurs’ lives may be written in fossilized pigments, but scientists are still wrangling over how to read them.