how do we know what dinosaurs looked like?
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>how do we know what dinosaurs looked like?
We don’t! All we have is are best (and at this point, highly educated) guesses. Paleontologists reconstruct the appearance of dinosaurs using a range of approaches including fossil evidence (to work out size, shape, structure, as well as behaviours based on trace fossils such as footprints) and chemical analysis (e.g. the presence of certain pigments or proteins in fossils can indicate the colors of dinosaur skin or feathers) .
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