What Color Were Dinosaurs... Really?
For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, go to http://bit.ly/2pZ7yYd. Paleontologists can figure out a lot about what dinosaurs looked like based on their fossils, ...
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One of the highlights of going to a natural history museum is seeing the ancient, the extinct, the giant -- animals like dinosaurs are huge attractions, but the thing is… what you can see isn’t entirely accurate… the color’s all wrong. Some of the first dinosaur fossils were discovered in the 17th century. The discoverer thought it was part of a giant human! It wasn’t for nearly two centuries that scientists would realize these bones belonged not to giants, dragons or pre-flood Biblical creatures, but to multi-million-year-old dinosaurs. Immediately, scientists started trying to gather and arrange bones and fragments into shapes and species -- many of which they (very famously) got wrong. Putting bones together, and knowing what a dinosaur looks like is a big leap. And ...
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One of the highlights of going to a natural history museum is seeing the ancient, the extinct, the giant -- animals like dinosaurs are huge attractions, but the thing is… what you can see isn’t entirely accurate… the color’s all wrong. Some of the first dinosaur fossils were discovered in the 17th century. The discoverer thought it was part of a giant human! It wasn’t for nearly two centuries that scientists would realize these bones belonged not to giants, dragons or pre-flood Biblical creatures, but to multi-million-year-old dinosaurs. Immediately, scientists started trying to gather and arrange bones and fragments into shapes and species -- many of which they (very famously) got wrong. Putting bones together, and knowing what a dinosaur looks like is a big leap. And ...
