The color of a dinosaur can give us hints about where it lived

Re-creating the colors of a dinosaur can help us figure out where and how it lived, say researchers who did just that for a so-called “parrot lizard” that lived in China more than 100 million years ago.In dinosaurs, as in plenty of other animals, color patterns aren’t random. Coloring developed in part as a camouflage method to help animals hide from predators. In a study published today in Current Biology, scientists from the University of Bristol used specialized light-imagin