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Archaeopteryx was black

Galvasean · 2012-01-25 00:46:13

Chalk up another prehistoric creature that we now know the (at least partial) colour of. The famous Archaeopteryx (is it a bird? is it a dino!?) sported black feathers in life. The same reseacrch which revealed this colouration also shows Archaeopteryx's feathers were quite rigid and durable, making them useful tools for…

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Chalk up another prehistoric creature that we now know the (at least partial) colour of. The famous Archaeopteryx (is it a bird? is it a dino!?) sported black feathers in life. The same reseacrch which revealed this colouration also shows Archaeopteryx's feathers were quite rigid and durable, making them useful tools for flight.

http://news.discovery.com/animals/first-winged-dinosaur-was-jet-black-120124.html

"CAW! I'm wrong!!"

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#2 25-01-2012 1:06am

Manach

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Well, I can now well image it lurking in a local rookery.
Quick google on modern bird colouration returned this article.

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#3 30-01-2012 2:02pm

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This makes it a prehistoric crow. Gonna be looking to the skies in future.

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#4 02-02-2012 7:28pm

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Let's not jump to conclusions, just because the wing feathers were black doesn´t mean the rest of the animal was. It may even be that the wing feathers themselves weren´t even fully black...

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#5 02-02-2012 10:09pm

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I like to colour in the wing feathers black and write TBC elsewhere.

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