The Color Of Dinosaurs
According to this NYT article scientists have discovered evidence of the actual color of the plumage of the theropods — the bipedal ancestors of birds. Scientists examined the feathers, which “contain pigment-loaded sacs called melanosomes.”
It turns out they look like chickens:
Anchiornis had a crown of reddish feathers surrounding dark gray ones, and its face was mottled with reddish and black spots. Its body was dark gray, but its limbfeathers were white with black tips.
Goodbye to the sepia haze of the imagined past.
