What Color Were Dinosaurs... Really?

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Paleontologists can figure out a lot about what dinosaurs looked like based on their fossils, but color? Not so much.
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A Dinosaur's Bloody Feathered Tail Has Been Found Preserved in Amber
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Dinosaur Family Tree Upended by 'Revolutionary' Study
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"A dinosaur's evolutionary history was long thought to be determined by the shape of its pelvis, but scientists behind a new study say that it 'overturns 130 years of dogma.'"
The Amazing Dinosaur Found (Accidentally) by Miners in Canada
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"Some 110 million years ago, this armored plant-eater lumbered through what is now western Canada, until a flooded river swept it into open sea. The dinosaur's undersea burial preserved its armor in exquisite detail. Its skull still bears tile-like plates and a gray patina of fossilized skins."
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[@brokenacoustic]

All my childhood plastic dino toys...all lies.

[@brokenacoustic]

We werent fancy enough for kits, my dinosaur toys were hard solid plastic with razor sharp edges. Nothing like a Brontosaurus tail fight to bring the family closer.

[@datoneguynamedgabeandheals7756]

acousticpsychosis no no a triceratops fight oooh bloody fingers

[@Apostate_ofmind]

So im not the only one!

[@royfranklin1157]

acousticpsychosis dinosaur couldn't even live on this earth, the diet of the apatosaurus would consume this whole earth. I have a lot of background in biology and there's no way that dinosaur could have existed. No way.

[@brokenacoustic]

Roy, you're on the wrong channel.

[@Frank-wt4zr]

Well, I know Albino Dinos were white XD

[@christianv-h3278]

They would not have been pure white, they would have paler than their usual colour.

[@thewolfofcomedy5966]

Trippy

[@Mattropolis97]

Daniel Kauffman Are you a produce manager by any chance?

[@Blue_Anzu]

No......... why are you asking?

[@Lemonz1989]

+Christian V-H Albinos would be pure white and reddish in places where the blood vessels were close to the surface. If they where paler than their usual color, then they would be leucistic (a condition called leucism). :)

[@angrybird29]

the dude talks serious science for 4 mins then suddenly, BAMM comes out in an apron.

[@Aboriginal_American_Hebrew]

srivardhan karnic lmao

[@Aboriginal_American_Hebrew]

srivardhan karnic Lol so comical because its true hahahah!

[@Adohleas]

Well cooking is a science, as in chemistry.

[@adumsundler4397]

*Says dinosaurs* *Shows plesiosaurs*

[@Blue_Anzu]

lol ikr

[@admiralcat3809]

Failure

[@maratutebayev340]

helo pinch boi

[@COVID-19_Crab]

*Also shows pterosaurs*

[@adumsundler4397]

Also Ichthyosaurs.

[@IDMon6]

It's a possibility that they're a color or shade of whatever color that no one has seen before, after all the oxygen was richer back then, the atmosphere was different, their food and plant life was different and were a lot bigger, some no longer exist

[@catpoke9557]

We can only see certain colors.

[@ap9413]

ID Mon No, the oxygen was not richer back then

[@ifrazali3052]

A P it was

[@BorutoUzumaki-lf3bb]

ID Mon we are here to know about colours not atmosphere and their search of food

[@06leond]

Imagine if we were inaccurate and the t-rex was pink and fluffy

[@WeAreSMC96]

and the sun was a giant disco ball, seawater was infinite pool of champagne until the dickhead asteroid came ruin everyones party

[@johnbgood52]

It would still be as big as an elephant, with teeth as long as steak knives.

[@maiko4663]

What if dinosaurs and unicorns were relatives

[@temmie2160]

They. Prob@bly were fluffy soooooooo

[@otomatonesattheendoftime2396]

Probably not. Trex was fat, like really fat. It would've used that fat to keep warm, although younger rexes may have had feathers, they would have lost them with age. And the colors would be either earthy or a jungle green, as it would be used as camouflage for hunting

[@columbusschaffer5772]

If the dinosaur was found in a mine, would it be outlandish to assume that it could have been some iron mixed in giving it a reddish pigment? Just wondering, i don't know anything about the case. -btw it's wrong adding colour doesn't change pigment. Some twat in the comments would like everyone to know.

[@MGC-XIII]

perhaps, but he wasn't talking about the colour you could see with your eye. He was talking about traces of melanosomes.

[@columbusschaffer5772]

Faith Breaker true dat. I don't know or shit I was just wondering thanks for replying.

[@CookieJari]

columbus schaffer Civilizes replies on the internet? What yeae am I in?

[@CookieJari]

columbus schaffer oh my god

[@DomyTheMad420]

adding a color by adding a substance that has that color does NOT suddenly add pigment. :| Kinda.. obvious.

[@Orsbore]

In other words, these people haven't a clue what color dinosaurs were.

[@ai-dooffical2907]

Orsbore feather colors yes that is easy... problem is scales which a chunk of dinosaurs had is a mystery.

[@WeAreSMC96]

i will have to appreciate how far the scientists have got us to, from whats just a pile of weirdly shaped stones to the uninformed lots. Thanks scientists! We always wish you knew better but heck, where would we have been if it wasnt for you guys!

[@TheAgamidaex]

REDDISH! I love your enthusiasm, Trace.

[@dinomemer9959]

Say Raddish instead

[@Xanderqwerty123]

There was probably at least one white "Albinosaur" with red eyes, but he wouldnt have lasted very long

[@Blue_Anzu]

Depends on what type of dinosaur it was, if it was a sauropod, it didn't really matter because sauropods were big and strong so they didn't need camouflage, if it was a velociraptor, then it would matter because they're tiny and could easily be spotted

[@thewolfofcomedy5966]

Actually baby sauropods likely didn't receive care from their parents, so they probably needed camouflage to hide from predators until they were predator-proof

[@StacieMMeier]

+Daniel Kauffman And yet there is evidence that T-Rex probably did use camouflage to ambush prey. Probably, they did as large cats do today, sneak up on their prey and then ambush them before they flee. Since we know that T-Rex's lived as a family unit (Based on some new nesting finds), it is even possible they attacked in groups like a Lion might do. This assumes of course, that T-Rex wasn't a scavenger, which new evidence is pointing too. I say this, because evidence is starting to show that larger Dinosaurs, did hide, did ambush, and did have possible family units. For all their long ago history, they are very much like animals in Africa today.

[@Blue_Anzu]

I never said that T.rex didn't use camouflage, also it's "T.rex" not "T-Rex" the species name is always lowercase, in this case the species name is "rex" and the "T" is short for Tyrannosaurus so it would have a period after it, not a dash. Tyrannosaurus may not have been a scavenger, but it most likely did eat corpses that it came across, as long as they weren't too rotten, like animals today

[@Naughtiest_Maximus]

lol and ranga-saurus got bullied for being ginger

[@man_on_wheelz]

The dinosaurs were all fluorescent neon colors, there was a rave everywhere you went

[@StacieMMeier]

While fluorescent neon colors is unlikely for land creatures, there is a new idea that sea creatures of the time may have glowed. Since we now know that Dinosaur's weren't cold blooded and some appeared to live in cold environments, we must ask, did they have fur?

[@man_on_wheelz]

+Stacie Meier honestly the actual appearance of Dinosaurs does fascinate me, like I wonder if we ever will get a definite answer to what dinosaurs really looked like?

[@WeAreSMC96]

drown in techno high on coke

[@internetpolice6143]

they were black

[@viljamtheninja]

African-American*

[@christianv-h3278]

Some dinosaurs, like the dromaeosaurid Microraptor possessed black-coloured, iridescent feathers. But not all of them.

[@WeAreSMC96]

*Sub-Saharan African descents****

[@maiko4663]

Like darkish green or something..

[@darksoals]

I like how the end of this video becomes a cooking show. Weren't we talking about dinosaurs what happened.

[@seamuscallaghan8851]

Video about the color of dinosaurs barely even mentions feather color, which has been thoroughly investigated with amazing results. Pity.

[@jv11112]

Can I has a Purple T Rex?

[@devinleber5604]

I would love a purple t. rex. Yessss (the "yes" is from beast wars).

[@G0die16]

A fluffy purple T-Rex

[@transitgamer6667]

Rexy vs burny

[@TrapToise]

Devin Leber BEAST WARS MEGATRON FOREVER!!!!

[@kylevansteelandt3971]

Jz6x6 That don't make no sense.

[@greyareaRK1]

The most obvious suggestions would be whatever might constitute camouflage of that time, or the colourings of animals today, specifically whatever might be a distant relative. Obviously it will vary, as it does today, so some might have bold colours for threat or mating displays, others various types of camouflage, stripes and spots, and so forth.

[@Mattropolis97]

John Matthias You're right, natural selection exists for a reason. I mean, those reptilian motherfuckers ruled the planet for hundreds of millions of years and we've barely been around in our current forms for 10,000.

[@Bobsry16]

More like 50,000 years.

[@Mattropolis97]

bob dash The modern human era began 12,000 years ago to be exact. I'm not talking about the first homo sapiens sapiens

[@penguinman1484]

It's gonna be nearly impossible to find out physical features of dinosaurs that are like if certain dinos had feathers, or this, what color they were.

[@bobbyharper8710]

I think dinosaurs were purple.

[@amandaegeskovhald8222]

Paleoart is awesome. It may be mainly guestimates at this point, but it's still the closest we can get to looking at what living dinosaurs would have looked like.

[@SueMead]

This kind of reminds me of all those fabulous ancient Greek statues such as _Venus de Milo_ and _David_. It was assumed that they were the dull shade of the materials they were made in. However now it is considered likely that they were painted up with pigments to resemble the likeness of a real person and hence, why the eyeballs were left relatively smooth, so that the colours of the eyes features could be accurately included. I guess it stands to reason that the colour would be lost after so much time had passed.

[@owensquelch449]

I really​ hope their bright pink.

[@noahdenver7349]

Man who still fucks up their and they're?

[@masteranimation2008]

Owen Mushet Well most cells are translucent and blood is red in dinosaurs(birds specifically), so there's a huge possibility that their skin was pink.

[@Mattropolis97]

Noah Denver Not everyone speaks English as a first language, ass wipe

[@familiacoronadososafamilia8332]

like pagan min

[@namegoeshere2418]

They're*

[@mr.rabbit5642]

Hey Trace! Great ad! We like that! Interesting, curious, enjoyable and not intrusive!

[@khushdeepbrar8534]

I was at the opening of the nodosaur fossil reveal at the royal Terrell for a field trip it was epic!

[@chabis]

From what I understand quite about every color would be possible. Camouflage would make sense for predators and pray so colors of soil, wood or leaves will probably be more dominant. But some animals even change colors depending on the time of the year, age etc.

[@Nezzzz]

More cooking with trace pls.

[@cup_check_official]

you guys made a green dino on thumb. do i need to watch the video?

[@JohnCena8351]

Tell Me This Yes.

[@exmythos7318]

Tell Me This well they wrote fake on top of it so...

[@dabboi7350]

John Cena Why do I find u everywhere like the gaminbeaver to !

[@ifureadthis_urgay]

using birds and stuff i think a female t.rex look green and brown while a male would have been a combination with green for camo,blue for attaction and black for a little bit of camo

[@Blue_Anzu]

T.rex had feathers

[@ifureadthis_urgay]

Daniel Kauffman yeah their feather collors are green,blue and black

[@Keegeth]

Maybe they're orange like our president!

[@bobbyharper8710]

Lord Kek one day dinosaurs will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

[@Mattropolis97]

*Impeach president Vagina Neck*

[@St44rtb33ntje]

'your' president

[@OrangeGuy]

like me

[@Keegeth]

ben145236 if you live in America guess what he's your president. Don't like get out of the way so I don't have to clean your blood off the Trump train once it runs you over.

[@wrybreadspread]

This is a good upload. It explains the nuances of paleontology and paleo art, and reinforces the correct notion that if the previous paleontologists were incorrect in their info it was because there their data was insufficient. Still, this humble KZbin watcher would submit that to call our museum information "speculative" better serves the cause of science than to call it "fictional".

[@alanavila4141]

Just came to see Trace being a good house wife

[@dianeramic]

Oh neat, I'm a paleoartist, so it's nice to see a video that kinda explains why what we do is helpful to understanding these animals! c:

[@salimsadmanborshon]

need a video on bermuda triangle...

[@gamingclipst1284]

salim sadman Same!

[@NathanSmith-lc6pp]

That nodosaur is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen

[@Godless-Heathen]

Imagine dinosaurs turning out to be bright pink with purple spots and similar strange patterns

[@spreadlove8624]

Chace cooking is so cute and so cute in that apron I lolled 😂😂😋😋💖💖

[@dotankrispin7206]

What if a Triceratops and another breed of ceratopsids, or what we think is another breed, is actually male and female of the same breed... male and female can be totally different in some animals.

[@bostontracy5151]

If they scanned the hyde of that nodosaur (presumably with a computer-aided color scanner), shouldn't they possibly be able to scan said hyde with Infrared to see any preserved melanin; you'd said it was kind of mummified?

[@Chimpingout586]

dinosaurs were most likely coloured like birds. they'd not be dull, but most birds have simple but not dull colors, and smaller birds have bright colors, so don't be surprised if you see a t rex that is just brown, and no other colors

[@KangJangkrik]

why scientists don't create a time machine then back to the past? it's easier right??

[@cyancoyote7366]

Probably not :P

[@Blue_Anzu]

The only way we know how to travel back in time is to travel faster than the speed of light....... which isn't possible :P

[@KangJangkrik]

Daniel Kauffman yeah... instant message, calling people from far away is impossible (10th century version)

[@Blue_Anzu]

Sorry, let me correct myself, anything *with mass* cannot travel the speed of light or faster

[@doublebubleguy12]

Traveling into the past has been said to be impossible but if you travel close to the speed of light your perception of time can be faster meaning that everyone and everything around you will age much faster which is in a way like time travel. A couple years could pass in just a couple weeks from your perspective for example.

[@Makairl]

What about the color of megafauna the mammals.

[@connorvaughn7968]

What if Dinosaurs had human like skin or skin like a naked mole rat.... That kinda sounds terrifying.

[@lukehanson7554]

0:26 well, actually... most creationist scientists still believe that dinosaurs were actually pre-flood biblical creatures.

[@Naughtiest_Maximus]

Wait wait wait... 2:45 "dinosaurs were definitely covered in feathers" *mind blown*

[@ihatecats7311]

I wish I could shape-shift so I can show scientist what dinosaurs looked like, sound like, etc. And get paid 1,000 dollars per dinosaur.

[@CarlosMedina-jc3nu]

Well, not just focusing on the dinosaurs but on the plant that were alive back then, providing chemicals and pigments that influence the color of the dinosaurs as we see today in bugs and birds making certain pigments with the ingredients of certain foods they eat.

[@shockwave4742]

I used to think they were green. Now I have no idea. We know now that woolly mammoths were a sort of strawberry blond because people have found frozen specimens, but I don't know of any frozen dinosaurs out there.

[@nihalelsayed2506]

Since no one can prove me wrong , I will always imagine dinasours to be pastel .

[@matt123abc]

love your videos!! keep them coming!

[@sylvur]

Time for Spielberg to reboot the Jurassic Park movies and give his dinos some FEATHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@JackassBauer1]

Imagine if your elementary school teacher would straight up told you: "Hey kiddo, the truth is that half of what I'm teaching you, I don't really have a clue if it's based on reality or not..." Maybe our gullibility and our vision of the world would be very different

[@fightersendurance600]

How can you say the dinosaur skin colors in video or pictures are wrong if there is little to reveal what they really were in the first place?

[@93izak]

So, the possibility of a purple T-Rex is actually posible

[@StacieMMeier]

Possible, though they were more likely darker and bland in colour as we know much about the environment of plants and smaller creatures of that time through amber samples, and they weren't colourful at all. More a brownish and dull shade. Some insects though did have orange and sometimes a darkish purple, so it is possible. Going back, to see, would be a horror though as there was a very large ant creature (Titanomyrma) about the size of a modern humming bird and this wasnt even close to the largest insect.

[@WeAreSMC96]

Stacie Meier only thing i love about living in a cold place is less insects

[@aabbccddeeffgg1234]

they found a mummified nodo? that is so damn cool, i hope they find more mummified dinoes

[@daltonhill5110]

I can imagine T-rex having stripes like a tiger since they both live in forests and need camoflouge. Just my personal opinion.

[@abilashbrian4997]

good info Trace im wondering......what if predicting the skin tone considering the external factors like weather& environmental conditions by reversing earth's timeline.......and narrowing possibilities down......

[@blind-rk6fl]

Anchiornis feather fossils were able show their color

[@svenservette4197]

I love the unbiased science on Seeker! So glad you didn't sell out completely to NowThis!

[@fabiankluivert8904]

what happed to sience plus?

[@FrozenAuroras]

iv been asking this question for years!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@anbrozin9444]

3:41 the subtitles aren't in sync for a bit :0 Pls fix this Seeker

[@starks187.]

the dinosaurs colour was like that salmon you cooked

[@benjamintalbot201]

DINOSAURS ARE PURPLE Y'ALL

[@swargpatel7634]

They tried this on a T- Rex. The image showed that it might have had feathers mostly on body, a orange stripe above its eyes,

[@thomasdevlin9566]

on the topic of dinosaurs with feathers, it doesn't really make sense that all dinosaurs would have feathers. some dinos probably did have feathers, but I feel like evolution wise it wouldn't make sense for something like a stegosaurus to have feathers, unless the creatures before dinosaurs were full fledged birds and that stegosaur hadn't fully gotten rid of all the unnecessary traits (which I'm pretty sure wasn't the case) there's probably evidence that I just haven't heard yet tough, so I could definitely be wrong

[@shadowthehedgehog3113]

Well some dinosaurs had feathers and weren't "full fledged birds". Although you are probably right-stegos probably didn't have feathers.

[@hinimee4363]

What did the librarian say to the student Read More

[@coachjskeepers1156]

First and most importantly, Cool Shirt Bro. Secondly, I have a Seeker Question... I sent this via Twitter a while back but I'm sure a lot of awesome inquisitive people do the same so I will try another form of communication: KZbin! Here is the question: "So light travels pretty stinking fast, but what 'size' does the light have to be to actually go a long distance? This may be ignorance but I imagine that if a candle were burning on the moon, which it can't but stay with me, it's light waves/particles (still weird to me) would never reach earth because it is too small." So how many candles are needed for light to travel a given distance?" Thank you for edumacating all of us, I love what Seek offers in regards to clear and thoughtful ideas.

[@user-pp3sv8pu2i]

When we finally figure it out, they better remake jurassic park with the correct colors

[@man_on_wheelz]

Well, time to dissect that beautiful, mummified creature and learn something new!

[@neot1837]

The most important phrase of most these seeker videos is "more research is needed". It's annoying when journalists get hold of a paper and write it down like it's a fact. No, this is what we found, but more research is needed.

[@Itsbuckjames]

Okay, so whoever made the music for that hello fresh ad... I think they had been listening to some Thai music

[@RPSchonherr]

Now that we know the connection of dinosaurs and birds we are using those patterns from birds to color dinosaurs. That may change in the future if we learn something more.

[@lyledeyounges1276]

The uncertainty and the speculation about what dinosaurs looked like is what makes them so fascinating, and yet so frustrating... we get to chose what we're most 'comfortable' with, aesthetically, but we all just really want a conclusion - that we might never get, because of hundreds of million years of evolution and the overwhelming amount of dinosaur species from different geological time periods and systems.

[@IgnasV]

*meals are 10$ each* and i'm here eating cheapest noodles 0.2$ with bread..

[@DavidKenny64]

I believe that FAKE is not the word you should have used here. It implies deception. If anybody feels deceived by paleoart then they were actually deceived by their own ignorance. There is an implied "This is our best guess at this time." This, of course, applies for many things in the universe that cannot be directly measured or observed with the tools and/or techniques of the day. Being wrong is not equal to being a faker. This is not to say that there no fakers in the scientific community, but they are the exception and not the rule.

[@LungsOutJem]

Some of the earliest dinosaur fossils were found in the 17th century, if you completely ignore the fact that dinosaur bones had prominent positions in ancient Greek temples. You do know that's where stories of giants and hydras came from, right?

[@Dmdm_dm]

Anything about reconstructing how extinct animals looked could be inaccurate. Take cockatoos for example, if they were extinct, how the hell would we ever know that they had a crest by only looking at their skeletons???

[@-KillaWatt-]

Interesting that you didn't mention some dinosaurs are believed to have had feathers and may have had bright colors just as birds of Paradise do today.

[@eurabe1]

Trace is quite the chef xD

[@iwanttocomment4987]

Is it just me or is the ad's music in reverse trying to control my mind?

[@vladutcornel]

Since modern dinosaurs (aka birds) seem to have the same skin color under their feathers, and old dinosaurs probably had feathers, it's safe to say they had the skin colored similarly to European humans. If the feathers weren't as dense as they are now, maybe they had different pigmentation based on the region of the world they lived in, like humans today do.

[@BorutoUzumaki-lf3bb]

When humans will end, robots will try to find out what colour humans were lol

[@xaminxarim6776]

Reds and browns? Judging from the fact that dinosaurs are supposedly related to birds, as well as that birds have keratin, and that keratin is a reddish-brownish colour (even black hair on humans is the same thing), would it be safe for me to hypothesise that dinosaurs had some sort of 'keratin armour'? That would explain why despite having keratin skin (keep in mind this stuff also makes your hair and some animal's horns and legs) some dinosaurs still needed pointed teeth: to penetrate armoured keratin. I actually kind of doubt this myself, but take of it what you will.

[@MFJL760]

we shouldn't try to figure out what color they are. we are moving past racism and now we are trying to focus our bottled up racism on the poor dinosaurs.

[@christianv-h3278]

Studying dinosaur colour can be useful for understanding paleoecology and behaviour (camouflage, display etc...). This is paleontology, not racism.

[@MFJL760]

Hypocrite? I'm just saying that we should focus on the content of their character and not the color of their wierd dino-skin. if you disagree then you must support Trump

[@noahdenver7349]

Please tell me this is a troll... good god.

[@Mattropolis97]

Nico Flihan I WANNA DISCRIMINATE AGAINST PTERANODONS Those motherfuckers ain't even dinosaurs but they get all the credit and scholarship money...

[@MFJL760]

They call me Polyglot Jones I prefer to save my hate for the Albertosaurus. Those bastards take jobs from the hard working native dinosaurs.

[@DJSbros]

Just an interesting thought: If we do imagine we're discovering the first human fossils now and we're trying to imagine what they looked like we'd likely look to apes for visual aid (in the same way we look at modern reptiles for visual aid when it comes to dinosaurs) and we'd probably assume all humans were black. Just a fun thought.

[@davidcarmer4476]

Nice video...now I'm frikkin' hungry. Good plug for your sponsor. :)

[@ImWatchingYouEat]

I feel so bad Trace had to do that placement haha.

[@ciararae8247]

Someone made up dinosaur noises without ever hearing one..

[@paulskillman6634]

Dinosaurs were the same color as lizards I would imagine. I always thought lizards were the descendants of dinosaurs..

[@mariambibihafejee]

We will never know what colour dinosaurs were. Even the most perfect fossil which preserves the slightest detail does not reveal the colours of the dinosaurs. The colours you see on paleoarts are guessworks/speculative.

[@emielsproviewbot1423]

Cant they find what collor the skin is tru gens in DNA?

[@mitch3443ful]

So we really do not know what color they are or what they really looked like... I bet we have been putting the bones together completely wrong too.

[@fireriffs]

Actually we probably have the bones right by now, for the most part, but early on the science needed to get it right really wasn't as well developed as it is now.

[@AFAR2809]

I think that dinosaurs are flourescent pearlescent-ish colored. hahaha that'd be cool!

[@jakeberry8882]

Me thinks some dinosaur species would have developed some sort of environmental camouflage pigment in there skin to better hunt prey. Specifically small predators which would use ambush techniques to catch prey.

[@lisa-lr8dh]

I think dinosaurs had dull green, brown, or grey colors to help with blending into the environment, similar to modern animals.

[@discduderules]

Microraptor gui is iridescent black

[@craigkdillon]

Except for primates, mammals are color blind. I believe that is why mammals are drab compared to birds. Dinosaurs saw in full color. Therefore, I would expect more usage of color, and camoflage that works on color sighted animals. On the other hand, large animals tend to be drab, even large birds. The Moa was drab, and ostriches are not too colorful. Niether are emus. So, maybe they were drab because they were large.

[@111mmgg]

based on the fact that is the Flintstones, dinos were most definitely pink and/or purple.

[@pierreuntel1970]

did you open your cooking channel?

[@Jemalacane0]

That nodosaur fossil: Wow!

[@venenodelalengua]

first 5 seconds I thought he was about to talk about Roger Ailes aka dinosaurus pervus