Scientists are firing lasers at dinosaur fossils, and the result is awesome

Scientists are one step closer to figuring out what dinosaurs actually looked like—and they're doing it by pointing laser beams at dinosaur fossils to show previously unknown features and details, including the actual fleshy outlines of prehistoric creatures. In a new study, researchers focused the technique on theAnchiornis, a small feathered dinosaur that lived in the late Jurassic period.SEE ALSO: A dinosaur-era reptile popped out babies, not eggsDue to the animal's drumstick-shaped leg