What color dinosaur skin was remains largely a mystery, as dino-hide fossilizes poorly, meaning that there are just a handful of examples of fossilized dinosaur skin in the entire world. Now, one of them — a chunk of hadrosaur skin found in a bone bed in Alberta, Canada — is getting an unheard of treatment. Researchers at CLS are looking to uncover what color the hadrosaur was in life by bombarding its remains with infrared light. How the light bounces off the sample should show researchers what chemicals were present in the animal, including chemicals that wuold have colored its skin brown, grey, green, or (we’re hoping) blue with bright orange polka dots.
via Geekosystem
