Friday, January 10, 2014

An elephant painting elephants

Did you know that some elephants learn to paint? But they don't paint very good paintings. But one elephant that's called "Peter" paints portraits of Indian elephants and he uses elephant dung paper. Here's a picture of him:

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Preserved pigment

Did you think that we'll never know what color the dinosaurs were? Think again! Scientists have found preserved pigment in fossilized skin from an ancient leatherback turtle,a mosasaur, and an ichthyosaur. (Okay, THOSE ancient animals are not dinosaurs but the time is close!) We now think that they were black and the leatherback had white bellies.