PULLMAN, Wash. – When we dig up fossils from the Earth they can tell us a lot about life in the past.
Fossils are preserved traces of plants and animals. Unfortunately, one thing that fossils don’t tell us a whole lot about is dinosaur color. This includes the color of Tyrannosaurus rex.
In fact, most of the dinosaur fossils we’ve found are of teeth and bones. We’ve only found traces of dinosaur skin a couple of times.
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