Figure out what color dinosaurs really were
Color is just a happy side effect of physics. So Canadian scientists
are turning to The Canadian Light Source synchrotron, a particle
accelerator in Saskatchewan, to help them figure out what color extinct
duck-billed dinosaurs actually were. By putting a 70-million-year-old
skull into the accelerator, they'll be able to figure out what molecules
— from pigments to melanin-producing cells — are still present in the
fossil.
Francie Diep explains how it works at Popular Science.
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