What you know about the color of dinosaur? It is said that scientists are still having trouble to determine the original color of dinosaur. Because whatever fossils we got from the various part of earth are all lacking of the pigment and related substances.
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National geographic magazine claimed in 2010 about the color of dinosaur very first time by relying on the source of his own paleological study. The team of researchers identified fossilized melanosomes bearing organelles in the feathers of Sinosauropteryx. It is the first fossil dinosaur to have its color scientifically established. These filament like protofeathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs found in northeastern China.
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These dinosaur feathers are also known as Dino fuzz. Jacob Vintner and his colleagues, discovered melanosomes in the dark bands of a hundred million year old feather using a scanning electron microscope.
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Some researchers argued that these hair like filaments are fossilized internal collagen and not related to feathers. But further study shows filaments packed with melanosomes is in the same way as in modern feathers. So it is probably the evolutionary precursors of modern feathers.
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Discovery of melanosomes in fossil feathers opens a door onto the new unknown world of prehistoric color because melanosomes contains the pigment known as melanin which is color associated pigment. Two most common types of melanin found in modern birds which is associated with grey and black feather and second is reddish brown to yellow feathers.
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