Within the last decade, paleontologists have discovered how
to unlock the color of extinct organisms, and I think it is one of the most exciting
and thought-provoking modern advancements in the field. I’ve written about it no
less than four times on this blog (one, two, three,
four!),
and now I feel obligated to write about it again.
It has been about a month now since the unveiling of the “most
accurate depiction of a dinosaur ever,” and the fanfare was suitably loud. Now,
I’d like to take a look over what we know about this dinosaur, and where it fits into this grand paleontological revolution we're living through.
The dinosaur: Psittacosaurus