An analysis of fossilised dandruff fragments has given scientists their first evidence of how dinosaurs and early birds shed their skin. Found among the plumage of these ancient creatures ...
Evidence such as skin imprints are important because they give "better, more precise ideas about the actual biology" of the animals, the museum said A dinosaur skin impression found 150 years ago ...
Stories abound of dinosaur skin impressions being ground to dust ... compounds that give modern bird eggs color and speckling. Bird eggs, such as these from tinamous, get their colors from ...
The dinosaur's plumage may have been used for mating or other visual displays, similar to how modern birds use their colorful feathers ... which go far beyond the skin-deep appearance of feathers.