How do scientists know what dinasaurs skin color is? They just see bone... If Someone Can Answer This...You Will Get A +Rep...unless i have given on in the past 30 days
They don't know because theres no evidence. Only thing they can guess is that they were probably green or grey to help them escape from predators or blend into surroundings. Hell, some even think the dinosaurs were purple/pink with polka dots.These are just theories.
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NEgative. Scientists have found fossilized pieces of dinosaur skin. Not all fossils are bones you know. Take for example the mammoth that was found perfectly preserved in the ice (with food still in his mouth and stomach mind you). The texture is also given by imprints found in stones and such. So, they know the color based on fragments they have found.
The scientists guess, based upon fossil. On the bones, if Scientists are lucky there will be small skin samples on it. Based on where the bones were found, or habitat, scientists can guess based upon knowledge of the dinosaurs Climatic condition, Environment they lived in, and Habits (Basically saying, depending on the number of one animal's predators and prey, size, food habits, foraging habits, the camouflage requirements vary.) With these, clues, I should say, Scientists, or actually, Paleobiologists, take there best judgment on the Dinosaurs skin. Hope that helped.
Mammoths are not dinosaurs. Textures also do not indicate colours. Also fossils generally take the colour of the rock formation they are found in.
And if you read my post you would notice where it says that they have found fossilized pieces of skin. I was using the mammoth as an example of what can be found perfectly preserved. And, last time I checked, if they found a chunk of flesh frozen in ice, it doesn't mean the skin turns clear...
"Direct fossil evidence for dinosaur skin color is unknown. Paleontologists think that some dinosaurs likely had protective coloration, such as pale undersides to reduce shadows, irregular color patterns ("camouflage") to make them less visible in vegetation, and so on. Those dinosaurs that had enough armor, such as the stegosaurs and ceratopsians, may not have needed protective coloration but may have been brightly colored as a warning to predators or as a display for finding a mate. Most dinosaurs probably were as brightly colored as modern lizards, snakes, or birds. The simple answer for skin color is we do not know. And it is likely we never will because of the chemical composition of pigments and their solubility, and the fact that skin is so rarely preserved, and typically only small pieces as impressions. This means that speculation, based on what we know of pigmentation in living vertebrates, is the main means for our understanding of color and color patterns in dinosaurs." Got that from some geology website,lol.
And that, my friend, is why you don't rely on a single source. There are a million different theories out there that support global warming, but there are those out there that say it's rubbish. IF there was a discussion topic on that, would you just post that one item? Nope. While one group might not say that the know the color, that doesn't mean that groups haven't found pieces with the color still intact. As a matter of fact, I think there was an article about it in National Geographic. Excuse me while I run and grab my bathroom reading material.
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What they do is take the still living animals of their species, and look back at how the skin color has changed and guess. Also, certain animals have certain skin colors based on where they live.
