Color Explosion Led to Fabulous Dinos 150 M Years Ago

[Zillamaster55]

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[quote]Dinosaurs went from drab to colorful fab just before 150 million years ago, according to a study published in the latest issue of the journal Nature.

The "Wizard of Oz"-type moment in evolution appears to coincide with the emergence of feathers.

Researchers determined this after studying pigment-containing organelles known as melanosomes. These specialized structures within cells in living organisms contain melanin, which is the most common light-absorbing pigment found in animals.

"Black, brown and grey colors are melanin-based," co-author Julia Clarke told Discovery News. "In birds, melanin-based colors include a slightly larger range of reddish brown, brown, black, grey, black and many forms of iridescence."

Clarke is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences. She and her colleagues compared the melanosomes of 181 diverse living animals, including birds, mammals and reptiles, as well as 13 fossil specimens and all previously published data on this subject.

Before it was determined that diversity in the shape and size of melanosomes is associated with the evolution of melanin-based color in non-avian dinosaurs, birds and mammals. This diversity in dinos happened suddenly, just as small, meat-eating maniraptoran dinosaurs were evolving feathers, the study found.[/quote]
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Reconstruction of the small feathered non-avian dinosaur Anchiornis.[/quote]

[theevilldeadII]

-sNip-

[Zillamaster55]

[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;44185759]150m years ago was the time of Rainbow's ( if you get what I Mean.)[/QUOTE]

The time of when apostrophes were placed incorrectly? Is that what you mean?

[Helix Snake]

Dinos have always been fabulous

[wooletang]

Maybe that's why they died out.

[JohnnyMo]

[QUOTE=wooletang;44185831]Maybe that's why they died out.[/QUOTE]

Glamour overdose?

[Vintage Thatguy]

[QUOTE=wooletang;44185831]Maybe that's why they died out.[/QUOTE]
Persecution for being too fabulous? By tea party aliens?

[Joazzz]

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;44186031]Glamour overdose?[/QUOTE]the red ones went faster and caught and ate all the others

[BFG9000]

Revealing research suggests that dinosaur extinction may have been accelerated by widespread homosexuality.

[wooletang]

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;44186031]Glamour overdose?[/QUOTE]

Imagine a feathered T-Rex, all blue and green, with bedazzled teeth.

Imagine that, and tell me that you wouldn't go gay for him.

[editline]10th March 2014[/editline]

Also imagine the fights that must have happened on Black Friday. You think we have it bad, imagine two massive Apatosauri going at it over a bag that Stacy just knows would go perfectly with her neck but fucking Brenda just had to have it for that wedding reception she's going to next week. Brenda doesn't even like them!

[businessPawn]

They went extinct because all of the gay dinosaurs were too busy being gay to reproduce. Take it as warning my friends and don't let it happen to humans.

Oppress the gays and vote Bachmann for the sake of humanity.

[Splash Attack]

[QUOTE=Helix Snake;44185817]Dinos have always been fabulous[/QUOTE]

Uhh...

[sYnced]

that's a cute little bird dinosuar

[Zillamaster55]

[QUOTE=businessPawn;44186385]Oppress the gays and vote Bachmann for the sake of humanity.[/QUOTE]

Bachmammal

Here for the Marsupial Party 2,000,016 BC