Comments on: DINOSAURS IN COLOUR!

By: The Weird and Wonderful – 3 « Sam's Adventures

The Weird and Wonderful – 3 « Sam's Adventures — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:13:48 +0000

[...] people have blogged about this, among them Ed Yong (1, 2), Matthew Cobb from the Uni of Manchester(1, 2) and Jerry Coyne (1, 2). Basically they all blog about the same two articles but the points made [...]

By: Matthew Cobb

Matthew Cobb — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:49:42 +0000

See latest post.

By: Finch

Finch — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:43:31 +0000

Although interesting, I see nothing surprising in this article. It is just one of a number of “cosmetic” articles that journals like Nature love to publish. I mean there is not much science in this article, but many funny and cool things for newspapers and media, in general. Moreover, the title of this article, as well as many statements done throughout the text, are very misleading. In fact, the results of this study just show that some coelurosaurs had pigments in their (proto)feathers, while the authors use the term “dinosaurs”, which includes many many more species than coelurosaurs does. Of course, it is more cool to say that dinosaurs had colors, but this statement is not scientific and conveys the false message that dinosaurs like T. rex or Triceratops had colored feathers. Just imagine if Spielberg just read the title and decides to make a Jurassic Park 4 with a T. rex in red and blue feathers! Yes, very cool, but not real!

By: Bex

Bex — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:37:22 +0000

Are you sure this is a very relevant issue? I mean, yes, it may be interesting … the possibility to provide some (feeble) inferences on behaviour, maybe even metabolism. But maybe this is not so amazing. Maybe it is just … cool: arresting images, nice colours, and the old stuff about charming dinosaurs. “Nature” seems to love appealing news, they are more attractive that … “tedious science”! Maybe dinosaurs had blue tails, maybe Neanderthals had red hair. Science or gossip? Once more, this is interesting, but … so much interesting?

By: Feathered dinosaurs—in color! « Why Evolution Is True

Feathered dinosaurs—in color! « Why Evolution Is True — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:08:14 +0000

[...] dinosaurs—in color! I was going to post on this, but Matthew Cobb beat me to it. (If you’re not looking in at his online Z-letter, you’re missing some good [...]

By: Kolory dinozaurów « Remote sensing i ekologia

Kolory dinozaurów « Remote sensing i ekologia — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:12:58 +0000

[...] Grafikę przedstawiającą prawdopodobne ubarwienie tego dinozaura przedstawia grafika (znaleziona na blogu The Z-Letter Archive): [...]