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Archaeopteryx wore at least one black feather (probably) (1 Viewer)

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Archaeopteryx wore black
In a procedure that has identified colors on several dinosaurs as well as fossil penguins, the researchers compared dimensions of the pigment-carrying structures, called melanosomes, against measurements of melanosomes of known color from 87 kinds of modern birds. (...) "I absolutely buy that this Archaeopteryx feather was black, but it’s hard to say what the rest of the animal was like,”
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Archaeopteryx was a male or female ? I mean that skeleton, not feather.
 
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