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# Dinosaurs had mohawks and freckles
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## Dinosaurs were not all ginger after all - some had a rusty brown mohawk
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and freckles, scientists have discovered.
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[![Richard Alleyne][1]][2]
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By [Richard Alleyne][3], Science Correspondent 6:30AM GMT 05 Feb 2010
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Researchers claimed last month that they could conclusively reveal for the
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first time the true colour of feathered dinosaurs that walked the earth more
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than 100 million years ago. It was "russet and orange".
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But now another study has come up with even more exciting news - others had
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"rufous" or reddy brown plumage.
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The scientists at Yale University revealed their discovery in the journal
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Science and created an illustration of how the dinosaur would have looked
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using microscopic clues from a fossil found in China.
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It features a reddish brown, Mohawk like, crest and freckles.
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The research not only adds to the previous revelation that some had ginger
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feathers but also further helps to dispel the image of them being grey and
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scaly.
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Researchers found a compound called melanomas which imparts colour in animals
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in a fossil of the Anchiornis huxleyi, a four-winged troodontid dinosaur that
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lived 150 million years ago during the late Jurassic period in China.
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This allowed scientists to piece together the colour pattern right down to
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individual feathers.
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Professor Richard Prum said: "This was no crow or sparrow but a creature with
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a very notable plumage.
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"This would be a very striking animal if it was alive today.
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"The patterns on the limbs probably functioned in communication and may have
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helped the dinosaur to attract mates."
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## [Dinosaurs][10]
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* ### [News »][11]
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