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First full-body color rendering of dinasour

2010-03-11 02:51:57 GMT2010-03-11 10:51:57 (Beijing Time)  Xinhua English

Scientists for the first time decode the full-body color pattern of a 155-million-year-old Anchiornis huxleyi, a kind of small-size beastly-foot class dinosaurs. Scientists of the Beijing Natural History Museum and those on dinasours, modern birds, ancient birds of the Peking University, Yale University, University of Texas and University of Akron finished the project in cooperation. (Beijing Natural History Museum)

The full-body color rendering of a 155-million-year-old Anchiornis huxleyi, a kind of small-size beastly-foot class dinosaurs. (Beijing Natural History Museum)

The fossil of Anchiornis huxleyi. (Beijing Natural History Museum)

Scientists for the first time decode the full-body color pattern of a 155-million-year-old Anchiornis huxleyi, a kind of small-size beastly-foot class dinosaurs. Scientists of the Beijing Natural History Museum and those on dinasours, modern birds, ancient birds of the Peking University, Yale University, University of Texas and University of Akron finished the project in cooperation.

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