How do paleontologists know how dinosaur skin was patterned?
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I’m pretty sure theres been a couple of fossil imprints which have shown skin pattern and/or evidence of feathers.
They really have no idea beyond educated guesses, that it could be some variation of current reptile patterns.
I’m not a paleontologist so I dont know exactly, but if I had to guess it is because we have viewed dinosaurs similar to reptiles and reptiles typically have patterned skin.
However, know we view them more so as bird like creature that had feathers. So it’s really just an artist rendition.
Dinosaurs were birds. They ALL had feathers and beaks.
We were lied to for years that they were reptiles.
Yeah i think that they basically just make a guess about what the skin may have looked liked based on factors that may contribute to a species survival e.g. camoflauge. They may also use reptiles that are alive today because they are probably a good indication of what the skin of dinosaurs may have been like.
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