Now in Living Color: Dinosaurs

For the first time, the colors that adorned a species of feathered dinosaur more than 150 million years ago have been revealed by U.S. scientists who deciphered microscopic clues hidden in a fossil of one of the creatures.

The Yale University team analyzed color-imparting structures called melanosomes in the fossil of the four-winged Anchiornis huxleyi and concluded that the animal had a generally gray body, a reddish-brown Mohawk-like crest, facial speckles and white feathers on its wings and legs, with black-spangled tips.

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