Microraptor: Live Chat with Mark Norell & Mick Ellison

On March 9, the American Museum of Natural History and io9 hosted a live webcast discussion about new dinosaur feather research. The study, by a team of researchers that includes Museum paleontologists, reveals the black iridescent color and detailed feather pattern of Microraptor, a pigeon-sized, four-winged dinosaur that lived about 130 million years ago.

Robert Gonzalez, a science reporter at io9, moderated the discussion with two of the new paper's co-authors: Mark Norell, chair of the Museum's Division of Paleontology and Museum senior principal artist Mick Ellison. Norell and Ellison also answered questions submitted through email and Twitter.

Learn more about the dinosaur feather study: http://www.amnh.org/news/2012/03/new-...


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