What colors are dinosaurs? We may be closer to figuring this out. Last week, a team of researchers published the first evidence of color in a fossil bird feather. The scientists hope that eventually their study can give some color to feathered dinosaurs.

No one wants to pass up a good dinosaur story, including us. The press has been all over this story, but I think it’s only the beginning– I can’t wait to find out Velociraptor’s true color.

 

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Wallace “J” Nichols is a California Academy of Sciences researcher who studies and tracks sea turtles. The more he learns about them, the more he realizes they’re in serious trouble.

Working with locals, he’s organizing conservation efforts up and down the Pacific coast of Mexico. His work is amazing and inspiring.

For information on other sea turtle conservation efforts, please visit the websites of the Marine Turtle Research Program, Pro Peninsula and Ocean Revolution.

Additional sea turtle photos by S. Hoyt Peckham.

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To go on a turtle scavenger hunt on your next visit to the Academy, click here.

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