Archaeopteryx had black feathers
Scientists have been able to determine that the feathered dinosaur archaeopteryx had black feathers. The discovery of archaeopteryx was one of the mos…
Archaeopteryx and its Feathers
Ryan Carney and his colleagues at Brown University released a scientific paper on the feathers of the Archaeopteryx today. Carney celebrated by having an Archaeopteryx feather tattooed on his arm, thereby gaining himself an entry in Carl Zimmer’s science tattoo collection. But what about the Archaeopteryx?
The first fossil of Archaeopteryx was a single feather–the one [...]
