how do we know the color of dinosaurs??

Question

if theres no skin found(duh) then how do we no if they arnt pink and purple or blue and green?? how do we know that the dinos gender didnt say what colors thay are..boys-blue or girls-pink..understand?

yes dinos have slightly larger hip bones: they have to carry babys..i no not all of them layed eggs...:-ss

Answer 1

They don't. They have no idea what color they were or how they looked. They always mix up the bones and guess. All tricks of the devil to get you to beleive in the myth of evolution.

Answer 2

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.
http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/faq/dino-faqs/pdq231.html

As far as gender. Females have slightly different hip bones.

It would be resonable to assume dinosaurs were the color of present day reptiles.

Answer 3

I actually had a chance to personally ask this question to Jack Horner, the paleontologist who partially inspired Jurassic Park's Dr. Grant. His response was that we have no idea. They very well could have been pink and purple. (And if they were, then you're right to think it would probably have been determined by gender. Bright colors on animals are often involved in mating displays.)

There's no conspiracy at work, though. Scientists aren't running around making baseless claims about dinosaur color. The only reason we have any preconceived notions about their color is that over the years people have chosen to build models of dinosaurs, paint pictures of dinosaurs, make movies about dinosaurs, etc. And if you're going to do that, well, ya gotta make them SOME color. (And by the way, Neil, creationists are just as guilty of inventing colors for dinosaurs as scientists. Check out the link below.)http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040501/news_1n1creation.html

Answer 4

No one knows for sure. We know their shape because of the bones left behind. I'm assuming half the time they use the skin texture and colors of lizards or other reptiles and apply the skin texture and color to the look and feel of a dinosaur.

Answer 5

Bird dinosaurs - Maroon, Dark Brown
Large plant eaters - Green, Violet
Small plant eaters - Pale brown
Meat eaters - Dark brown
Others - Blue and Green

Answer 6

We don't. They are just added to reconstructions to make them more life-like. Reconstruction of extinct animals no human has ever seen always have room for artistic interpretation, because some traits cannot be determined examining the fossils.

Answer 7

because they said so...