http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2010/hyperparents/index.html
Hyper Parents & Coddled Kids
I highly suggest finding this documentary if you can. Hovering parents controlling every little aspect of their child's life is unnatural, and entirely nutty.
A little while ago, scientists figured out the colours of the feathers on the tail of Sinosauropteryx
(see here) by observing the microscopic shape of the feather proteins imprinted into fossils.
They discovered that it's tail was a light brown with white stripes in rings around it. That's all they could find, so the picture has an accurate tail, but the rest of it is probably rubbish.
This requires high quality fossils, and they didn't really fore-see too much happening too quickly.
Today, while stumbling, I found an article from today on the National Geographic website that gave me major goose-pimples (right before the re-run of the LOST season 6 premier. Extra pimpley!)
They've analyzed a WHOLE DINOSAUR.
CLICK HERE NOW. DO IT.THERE IT IS!
On the NG site (where these images are from) they also had a picture of a beautiful chicken with these pictures. I'm assuming it's the connection with the
Anchiornis huxleyi's way of standing and movement helps the reader visualize how this animal would have moved and behaved. It certainly brings a whole new element of realism to this whole experience.
This is definitely a breakthrough in our knowledge of ancient animals, and it excites me so much! I'm even missing the part where Jack, Kate, and Sawyer realize they're still there, it's just that exciting.
I look forward to seeing what else this will bring about in the future of dinosaur colour analysis.