London, July 9 : Palaeobiologists have found that 100-million-year-old fossilized bird feathers preserve microscopic colour-containing pouches, which when decoded, could reveal realistic colour patterns of the dinosaurs.

According to a report in New Scientist, Jakob Vinther, and colleagues Derek Briggs and Richard Prum, from Yale University in the UK, fired electron beams onto an unidentified bird feather fossil from Brazil to reveal precisely-arranged packets that colour plumage brown, black and grey.

“They look like small sausages, they’re elongated and rounded at the edges,” said Vinther. “We are quite confident that they aren’t bacteria,” he added.

The packets resemble similar structures on modern birds.

Melbourne, July 8 : Drained after the workout? Well, just grab a cup of coffee along with a plate of carbs and you will be back in action, suggests a new research.

Washington, July 8 : A group of scientists have come up with an eco-friendly solution for biofuel production in the form of using plants to make the enzymes that can break down the plant material i

Washington, July 8 : Scientists have shown that motions in the fluid in the Earth’s core are changing surprisingly fast, and that this, in turn, affects the magnetic field of our planet.

Washington, July 8 : Scientists have uncovered a key molecule that lets microbes produce carbon dioxide and methane – the two greenhouse gases associated with global warming.

London, July 8 : Japanese scientists have discovered that that potter wasps use a parasitic mite called Ensliniella parasitica as bodyguards to protect their babies from parasitic wasps.