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Fossilized feathers may hold a trace of colour

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Pigment remains might help to discern colours and patterns in feathered dinosaurs.

The remains of pigments have been spotted in a fossilized bird feather. The work could point the way to determining the colour of feathers on long-extinct creatures, from birds to dinosaurs.

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  1. Vinther, J. et al. Biol. Lett. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2008.0302 (2008).

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  1. Katharine Sanderson
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Sanderson, K. Fossilized feathers may hold a trace of colour. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.940

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