Topic: Colorizing Dinosaurs: Feather Pigments Reveal Appearance of Extinct Animals

[sam]

Long the range of the imagination, the coloration--and origin--of feathered dinosaurs and ancient birds has begun to be revealed through fossilized organelles

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=colorizing-dinosaur-feathers

[Rik]

Is it time for a re-run of Jurassic Park already?

[Clive]

I quite liike the idea of gaudy-coloured dinosaurs!   

[Rik]

It will make a change from giant lizards, won't it...

[Simon]

Jurassic Park - a new name for IDNetters? 

[Rik]

Careful.

[Simon]

[sam]

My nephew (who is 2) is obsessed with dinosaurs and though he can't say my name correctly he can pronounce velociraptor etc fine 

I think he'd enjoy a new Jurassic park.

[Rik]

Add a raptor to your name, Sam.

[Simon]

Samisaurus!  

[Clive]

 

[Rik]

It's the curry that did it, Simon.

[Simon]

That would be megasaurarse, then. 

[Rik]

[Simon]

Or, if it were a mild curry, a semisaurarse...

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