A team of paleontologists and ornithologists have discovered evidence of vivid iridescent colors in fossiled feathers more than 40 million years ago. Although fossil feathers were known, they weren't able to find their original colors. Now that they discovered a color-producing nanostructure feather it opens up possibilities of being able to one day find their true. For more than 25 years tubular structures have been found on fossiled feathers and hair. The team had previously discovered that these structures were not in fact bacteria but melanosomes.
In my opinion this is very intresting. I thought scientists knew what color dinosaurs were. If this is the first time scientist have have found the color dinosaurs what were basing they're theory of what there color on. I wonder if a dragon is considered a dinosaur. I wonder how may types of dinosaurs there are.
http://www.macroevolution.net/iridescent.html
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