Researchers have found what appear to be remnants of pigment
in fossilized feathers, opening the possibility of reconstructing the colors of
many long-extinct animals.
FOSSILIZED COLOR? The pigment of dinosaurs or early birds may have been preserved. Black stripes on a fossilized Cretaceous feather (left) from Brazil resemble marks on a modern woodpecker feather (right).
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