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• Dinosaur FAQ
Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for about 160 million years.
During the Mesozoic Era, dinosaurs became an amazingly diverse group. Some dinos stayed small. Others became the largest creatures ever to walk the planet. Some were meat eaters, while others ate plants. Some walked on two legs; others walked on four. Some evolved feathers…and some even took to the skies.
If you’re new to the world of dinosaurs, or you just need a refresher course on the basics, take a look at the most commonly encountered questions about dinos. You’ll learn what’s fact and what’s fiction and get the latest theories on the evolution of these giants.
 FAQ #1
What did dinosaurs look like?
Big, bumpy-skinned lizards—some even had feathers.
Sometimes, scientists get lucky and find fossils of soft tissues like skin and feathers. These rare finds are clues about what dinosaurs looked like. The Field Museum has some rare fossils of thick, wrinkled dinosaur skin with hard knobs. These knobs gave these dinosaurs a scaly, lizard-like look.
Scientists cannot tell the color of skin, because skin color doesn’t fossilize. Artists base the coloring of dinosaur drawings on real-life coloration patterns found in many animals.
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