Archaeopteryx had black feathers

i want a chocobo I want a black Chocobo so I can fly around on it.

Interesting story, nice this bird has an 'official' colour now. When I was a lad I had a book about dinosaurs and Archaeopteryx appeared on the last page sporting blue feathers with white tips. The article mentions examining 'a' feather (a single feather?), if this is the case could we have seen different coloured plumage elsewhere on the body? I wonder this of dinosaurs, how accurate are the CGI dinosaurs skin colours in movies and documentaries? As a lad this was up for argument (so David Bellamy told me), have some dinosaur colours been resolved to or are we still just guessing? They really... [More]

I'm sure that the Archaeopteryx chose black because it's so slimming. BTW purple is this years black

i think they should scan feathers of other specimens too. i didn't even think it would be possible to determine color from fossils

For those of you that are interested... http://news.national...-science-wings/ Quote from above link "One of the first dinosaurs to take to the air had wings with at least one black feather, according to a new study." Full render of Archaeopteryx - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100127-dinosaurs-color-feathers-science/o/ Pigments have been found in fossil dinosaurs for the first time, a new study says - http://news.national...-colors-nature/

So after all the years of speculation, we now know it's wings were black. Very good.

Looks similar to a vulture.

Archaeopteryx is believed to be world's first bird. a href="http://vpn4all.com/"VPN/a Hi,I guess we have to go along with the scientists on this one,but no doubt some one will try to disapprove the theory that its the worlds 1st,but I still reckon it looks like a vulture,and its certainly not a hen.cheers

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I didn't even think it would be possible to determine color from fossils I was under the impression that at this time it's not, despite the melanin argument here. The last article that was posted on UM about fossil feather color was very specific that the methods used would only give us enough information to determine if it was a light or dark shade. Not enough to determine actual color.