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Little 'Rainbow' Dinosaur Discovered by Farmer in China
| "The preservation of this dinosaur is incredible — we were really excited when we realized the level of detail we were able to see on the feathers," study co-researcher Chad Eliason, a postdoctoral researcher at the Field Museum in Chicago, said in a statement. [See images and illustrations of the iridescent dinosaur]
| A farmer in northeastern China's Hebei Province discovered the fossil, and the Paleontological Museum of Liaoning in China acquired the find in 2014. After discovering its iridescence and noting the unique bony crest on top of the dinosaur's head, researchers gave it a colorful name — Caihong juji — which is Mandarin for "rainbow with the big crest."
| https://www.livescience.com/61429-little-rainbow-dinosaur-discovered-by-farmer-in-china.html
| Sometimes I wonder if dinosaurs are real.
| DINOSAURS ARE GREEN
AND FUCK YOU!
| Part of a rainbow is green
| Yoshis in real life
| Can we clone this guy?
| I wish fiction would make the jump to feathered dinosaurs. These aren't fictional creatures, they're real extinct species and they didn't look like they do in jurassic park!
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| Despite its fearsome, Velociraptor-like skull, a 161-million-year-old dinosaur the size of a duck would have been a shining, shimmering and splendid sight to behold — mostly because it sported gleaming, iridescent feathers that were rainbow-colored, a new study finds.
Iridescent feathers glistened on the dinosaur's head, wings and tail, according to an analysis of the shape and structure of the creature's melanosomes, the parts of cells that contain pigment.