Sentences with phrase «colors ancient creatures»
«Several years ago, people would have said we'd never be able to tell what colors ancient creatures were,» he notes.
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As a result, figuring out what ancient creatures looked like — and particularly what colors they might have been — was by necessity speculative.
Chromatophores produce the colors of all kinds of vertebrates other than reptiles, including fish and amphibians — so the new technique could open a door into seeing the full colors of a wide variety of ancient creatures.
As a result, figuring out what ancient creatures looked like — and particularly what colors they might have been — has been mostly speculative.
Dr. Peter Warshall (great ecologist, birder, desert denizen, Bio-neer, Northern Jaguar Alliance, author working on a book about color and vision in nature, etc) was telling me (and I wish I had taken proper notes and references) that he had read an article in a technical biology journal of some sort showing that the DNA of a ancient bacterium had been absorbed into the DNA of the host creature, and that on further looking we may find that creatures are constantly acquiring whole sections of DNA by some unknown process.