Dinosaurs
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The Colour of Dinosaurs
In bird feathers, there are cells that hold the pigment melanin. The shape of the malan zomes in bird feathers codes for color. This is just sort of reds, browns, blacks, iridescence and grays. So people were able to start to see these milanozomes, in the shapes of these Milanozomes in feathers, and start color up dinosaurs. And how did we e decide case itisqiaras with recent discoveries about the colours of dinosaurs? How do we go about inferring the color of a dinosaur?
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