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Dinosaur Era Feather Reveals Its Colors

The long debate over a complexly colored fossilized feather belonging to a species of bird that flew in the Earth's skies some 100 million years ago has been settled recently by scientists after they revealed that the coloring patterns were of biological origin, and might contain clues to some of the hues displayed by ancient birds and particular species of dinosaurs. "It solves a conundrum. The banding looks so life-like that it can't be geological in origin – it has to be biologic... Read »
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