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Re: Dinosaur Color Scheme
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lugnet.adventurers
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Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:15:13 GMT
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> From the fossil records, really we cannot know what colors these dinosaurs
> were in when they were alive. The artists usually picture dinosaurs in • gray or
> other dull colors, because today somehow large animals are never colorful
> (e.g., elephant, crocodile, etc.).
There is no indication at all that a Triceratops or Stegosaurus would have
had differently coloured legs. Extrapolating from recent species it is most
likely that they were unicoloured.
> On the other hand, the established theory is that birds evolve from • theropods.
> Since some birds do have feet in orange, why not dinosaurs?
Because some birds have a selective advantage because of orange feet (stir
up animals they feed on etc.). I cannot think of a selective advantage a
herbivore elephant-sized animal could have with orange feet....
Arnold
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| (...) just because I'm feeling combatative, I figured I'd challenge you on this ... what recent species are you extrapolating from? Many many reptiles and amphibians display massive variation in their coloration: lizards tend to have lighter (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) The Dino Island sets arrived in our stores, so I had a chance to look at the boxes. "The Dino Research Compound" has the stegosaurus displayed under the lid, and I can say, it looks *way* better than on the pictures. Actually, the Stego (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| From the fossil records, really we cannot know what colors these dinosaurs were in when they were alive. The artists usually picture dinosaurs in gray or other dull colors, because today somehow large animals are never colorful (e.g., elephant, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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