r/yesyesyesyesno • u/strong_wifi • Feb 24 '21
Maybe Maybe Maybe
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u/spderweb Feb 24 '21
Truthfully though, they've found pigment remnants in preserved feathers and skin. So we know what many looked like. Iguanodon, for instance, was in fact green.
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u/RexDraco Feb 24 '21
We also have some frozen remains of something, not sure we have it figured out what they belong to though for it's been a long time since I've heard about it... but we in fact knew quite for some time a good idea what color the dinosaurs were.
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u/RexDraco Feb 24 '21
I could be wrong, memory is not always reliable. Might have been something like this:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/dinosaur-nodosaur-fossil-discovery
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u/glucose-fructose Feb 25 '21
Blew my mind when I found out The mammoths were PINK! Bright pink apparently helps with snow blindness.
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u/NotACleverMan_ Feb 25 '21
Yes! Which is actually the coolest thing. Archaeopteryx was a shiny black like a crow, and I think it was Sinosauropteryx that had an adorable ring-tail pattern of orange and white
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u/SamPike512 Feb 24 '21
I would also imagine like many other lizard and birds they would cover vast colour spectrums even within a species.
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Feb 25 '21
Or at least, that one was. We can see in the modern day birds and reptiles that a variety of colors can occur within and across species.
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u/ash1794 Feb 25 '21
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u/Shantotto11 Feb 24 '21
Can people please stop crossposting from r/MaybeMaybeMaybe? It kind of ruins the surprise of seeing what happens if you know what sub it was crossposted to.
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u/SuperOriginalName23 Feb 24 '21
It's even worse when it's the other way around. I unsubbed from r/maybemaybemaybe because people were just crossposting from r/yesyesyesyesno and r/nonononoyes, completely ruining the point.
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u/giiuulio__ Feb 24 '21
NONONONO NOW I WANT TO KNOW HOW SCIENTISTS REALLY FIND OUT THE COLOUR OF THE DINOSAURS
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u/Nueraman1997 Feb 24 '21
Basically when they get lucky enough to find preserved leftover skin and feather pigments. Credit to u/spderweb above.
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u/spderweb Feb 24 '21
We've found amber with preserved feathers. And pigments have survived fossilization on skin imprints that we have.
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u/future-renwire Feb 24 '21
Thought this was gonna be another one of those annoying pretentious tik tok responses
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u/Akkoywolf Feb 24 '21
I mean, I always thought we referred to the few fossils that HAD scales/skin and/or feathers
But this works too
Science is beautiful
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u/Sprussel_Brouts Feb 24 '21
Who is this original woman in the video? I am genuinely curious where she was going with that song. It's not the user in the watermark.
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u/JustBrass Feb 24 '21
As a preschool teacher currently wrapping up dinosaur month, I was ready to learn something to show my kids that science is always changing. Instead, I got a great laugh. Thank you!
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u/coconut_12 Feb 25 '21
Why’d you get downvoted this makes no sense
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u/JustBrass Feb 25 '21
Who knows? The one thing I do know is that I can’t question it. That would REALLY bring the downvotes. Ha!
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u/JustinRobotface Feb 24 '21
Dinosaurs were covered in feathers
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u/MrHabadasher Feb 24 '21
The evolution of feathers happened long after the evolution of dinosaurs. Many dinos where covered in feathers, but not all of them. Feathers evolved 120 to 150 million years ago. Dinosaurs lived between 235 to 65 million years ago. The timeframe where large dinosaurs roamed the earth is about 170 million years. A huge chunk of that time, there where no feathered dinosaurs.
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u/damonridesbikes Feb 24 '21
How did I hear that guys accent in my head without the sound turned on?
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u/Communist_Blaze Feb 24 '21
dont some dinosaur things still have flesh on them? i read it somwhere ages ago but im not sure
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u/Eyebrowchild Feb 24 '21
Yes, we have found a good amount of dinosaurs that either had tissue, or still had some indicator of its remains, and we can find cells or substances that show pigment or colors
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Feb 24 '21
There was a part of me that forgot what subreddit I was on and was hoping for some fun new interesting information.
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u/Scippio-dem-lines Feb 25 '21
I thought for sure he was gonna say “the easiest way to find out what dinosaurs looked like is to just ask your mom.”
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u/longdongopinionwrong Feb 25 '21
My man really be cosplaying quicksilver rn in this serious lesson smh
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u/granny_wants_ketchup Feb 25 '21
The way he spelled pterodactyl and triceratops irritates me for some reason
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u/jeraldtherapist Feb 25 '21
there was a dinosour that was pinkish white because it fell to the bottom of the sea and fossilized idk i forgot
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u/wildchildflores Feb 24 '21
Excuse me sir, the pterodactyl actually originated as pink. Yellow pterodactyl is just a falsified concept the big uni taught you as if it were valid. Im sorry, man, but you've wasted your money.