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Thu 01 Jan 2010Dinosaurs get a fresh new look
SCIENTISTS HAVE found a way to identify the colours displayed by 125- million-year-old feathered dinosaurs. One species in particular was an out-and-out ginger, complete with an orange and white-ringed tail, writes DICK AHLSTROM
In a remarkable piece of detective work, the team, including scientists from University College Dublin, examined tiny fossilised pigmentation structures within the dinosaur feathers.
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