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Oh no, what a tough life. I have to deal with that on a daily basis my friend.


It sucks. ._.

I'd prefer to be invincible or like, have bacteria recycling oxygen so I didn't have to breathe as much etc.


But, you know.

Stupid human organs. xp


Our super heated metabolism is great but you need a lot of stuff. xp

Isch, I have the worst metabolism ever...


It's okay to stay warm but really we need like a gallon of foodsz just to stay ALIVE.

I like burning calories but can't we be... more efficient?


Idk, just a tad silly to me.

Better organs would be nice but you never known when you're going to fall into a wormhole and end up in 1967, so you don't always plan ahead plus it's difficult to do, even in the future >.<

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Maybe there is some genetic component that helps them determine it? Because some animals that are strange colours, such as tigers that are born white, is due to a genetic mutation, so maybe that? Or maybe they are basing colours off of today's reptiles?

Loyal Gekko

Does this mean rainbow dinosaurs?? cat_xd
Pretending they are polka dot may supply some fleeting gratification.

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Dinosaurs are still alive today.

Birds are a lineage of dinosaurs that survived the extinction at the K/T boundary ~65 million years ago.

And we can tell what colors they were

http://www.livescience.com/28262-dinosaur-feather-color-debated.html

http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/feather-color-detected-in-30-million-year-old-bird-fossil/

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2010/02/05/fossil-feather-colors-are-writ/

by looking at the melanin pigments fossilized in their feathers. Most of these guys come from an area in China where a decent number of were fossilized under an ash later. They have been found elsewhere, too.


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Dinosaurs are still alive today.

Birds are a lineage of dinosaurs that survived the extinction at the K/T boundary ~65 million years ago.

And we can tell what colors they were

http://www.livescience.com/28262-dinosaur-feather-color-debated.html

http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/feather-color-detected-in-30-million-year-old-bird-fossil/

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2010/02/05/fossil-feather-colors-are-writ/

by looking at the melanin pigments fossilized in their feathers. Most of these guys come from an area in China where a decent number of were fossilized under an ash later. They have been found elsewhere, too.


(:~


What this guy said.

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To be quite honest, I could not care less about the colour of dinosaurs. It may be a fascinating thing to think about, but it is not something that people should spend money or large amounts of time thinking and theorizing about.

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Feather/Protofeather colours

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The finding may also open up a new world of prehistoric color, illuminating the role of color in dinosaur behavior and allowing the first accurately colored dinosaur re-creations, according to the study team, led by Fucheng Zhang of China's Institute for Vertebrate Paleontology.

The team identified fossilized melanosomes—pigment-bearing organelles—in the feathers and filament-like "protofeathers" of fossil birds and dinosaurs from northeastern China.

Found in the feathers of living birds, the nano-size packets of pigment—a hundred melanosomes can fit across a human hair—were first reported in fossil bird feathers in 2008.

That year, Yale graduate student Jakob Vinther and colleagues, using a scanning electron microscope, discovered melanosomes in the dark bands of a hundred-million-year-old feather. In 2009 Vinther's group went on to show that another fossilized feather would have been iridescent in a living bird, due to microscopic light-refracting surfaces created by stacked melanosomes.

These earlier findings proved it was possible for melanosomes from dinosaur times to survive in fossils.

But until now no one had found the pigments in dinosaurs—other than birds, which many paleontologists consider to be dinosaurs. And no one had used melanosome shape and density to infer color.
There's only one way to find out cool

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Well I think they had to be neutral/greenish brown colors because most animals are this color to blend in sometimes for hiding.

*I'm just guessing.
My paleontology knowledge goes as far as jurassic park xp
Looking at possible environmental pressure to become a certain color can help determine the color of a type of dinosaur. If no such environmental pressure is identified, it is logical to assume that the dinosaur was not an exotic color. However, to say that we know the color of the dinosaurs is absurd.

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I've decided to now start imagining them as the coolest colors possible, such as neon green with flashing spots.
I believe they found out the colors. Purple was one of them.

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Yep, lets just all forget about the many preserved samples of dinosaur skin.

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