Daily Dino Fact: What do we know about dinosaur skin?
Recently discovered skin from a 66 million year old Hadrosaur
We see dinosaurs a lot in movies and cartoons, but do we really know what they look like? The only thing we really know is their size and shape. Humans have been collecting dinosaur fossils for hundreds of years, but we know nothing about their color and at least up until this point, the texture of their skin.
Recenetly, paleontologists (scientists who study fossils) dug up this skin impression of a Hadrosaur in North Dakota. Hadrosaurs are commonly referred to as the duck-billed dinosaurs because of the shape of their head and mouth. While very few dinosaur skin fossils have been found, this is the only one to show the texture.
Does this fossil change the way your think about what dinosaurs looked like? How do you think dinosaurs were colored?
July 7th, 2009 at 8:09 am
Wow ! I think they were colored in many colors but mostly green!
July 7th, 2009 at 8:18 am
I think they had different colors to them like red. But they also could of had green on their skin.
July 7th, 2009 at 8:19 am
COLOR ARE BLUE AND GREEN MY GUESS
BUT DINOS MIGHT BE SMALL OR BIG AS MT.EVEREST!
July 7th, 2009 at 9:50 am
ASAP! ASAP! ASAP!
FLYBOY TAMMY OTHER MODS! I CANT LOG INTO MY ACCOUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wHAT DO U DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELP ME !
July 7th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Probably they are fixing some bugs in the game!
July 7th, 2009 at 10:59 am
thats awesome info!
July 7th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Just like you to know that you’ve done an awesome job on creating this beta. I hope that you can make it run a little faster in the future though because it sometimes goes really slow for me
(Mainly because my comp is getting pretty old XD). Anyways, you’ve done an awesome job and I hope you can keep it up. One last question. Why did you choose dinosaurs in the first place?
July 7th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Alien looking skin
July 7th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
thats pretty much what i thought dino skin would look like!
July 13th, 2009 at 3:10 am
I think the colors may be blue or green
March 15th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
it just looks like a turtles back on its SHELL! and i think the colors are blue and yellow:) :[] it is mayde a dinosaur that got killed on the ground that a awesome! bone they have found looks pretty COOL! i try to fine a foissl at my house but i did not fine one but i got to go to the derset to fine foissl but it is TOO TOO HOT! a raod runner has to get on a catus for it gets to hot for the raod runner but that was a awesome job to get that foissl it is so COOL!! i,m going to see it ever day! now!