What Colors Were Dinosaurs?

PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ↓ More info below ↓ We know a lot about dinosaurs but there’s one question that has plagued paleontologists for decades: what color were they? To learn more about Squarespace, go to http://squarespace.com/eons and use code “EONS” Thanks to Julio Lacerda and Studio 252mya for the Sinosauropteryx illustrations. You can find more of Julio s work here: https://252mya.com/gallery/julio-lacerda Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshow Twitter - https://twitter.com/eonsshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eonsshow/ References: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/science/28dino.html http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/5/522.short https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7284/full/nature08740.html http://science.sciencemag.org/content/327/5971/1369 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/335/6073/1215 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982216307060 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20354675 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05/120521-squid-cuttlefish-ink-sacs-fossils-melanin-science-simon/ http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/melanosomes/melanin.html http://news.yale.edu/2008/07/08/fossil-feathers-preserve-evidence-color-say-yale-scientists http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100127/full/news.2010.39.html https://www.coursera.org/learn/dino101/lecture/LjSoo/appearance http://news.yale.edu/2010/02/04/yale-scientists-first-reveal-flamboyant-colors-dinosaur-s-feathers http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/dinosaur-wore-forest-camouflage-hide-predators