Colorful Dinos

Well we already know the color of a few dinosaurs. Sinornithosaurus I think was orange and black from fossilized pigmentation and Microraptor was black. I'm sure there's another but yeah. Many dinosaurs, like Spinosaurus, Ouranosaurus, Irritator and Oxalaia had colorful ridge/sails if anything. It just seems likely for some reason. I would be really surprised if Spinosaurus didn't look like this [img]http://th06.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2013/121/3/8/the_pharaoh_spinosaurus_aegyptiacus_by_fragillimus335-d5slsgq.jpg[/img] Their closest relatives -birds and lizards- are colorful most of the time so I don't see why they wouldn't be.

That's a good depiction of Spinosaurus and it feels right. I can just picture a real Spinosaurus having that pattern and everything.

I thought he was a light iridescent blue?

Also sinosauropteryx was orange and white ,they know this cause they studied the fossilized pigment.

We will never know what they actually fully look like until we get a very well preserved specimen... OR ( the more exciting way) We go and genetically create the creatures (FUN)

Males were probably more colorful than females. Like modern birds. Perhaps Spinosaurus, Ouranosaurus, Stegosaurus, and others could change the color of their plates/sails by pumping blood into them. I bet the crests of dinosaurs like Allosaurus and others had a splash of color. Birds and crocodilians can see in color, so it's likely dinosaurs could too. [img]http://images.wikia.com/walkingwith/images/9/96/Allosaurus_2.jpg[/img] [img]http://planetdi.startlogic.com/dinosaur_list/images/stegosaurus_tm.gif[/img] [img]http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/sci_nat_enl_1139400412/img/laun.jpg[/img] Feathered dinosaurs probably had splashes of color too... [img]http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/U6Fr5ZF3Pp0/mqdefault.jpg[/img]

I'm sure they were colorful and had some sort of patterns to them but I wouldn't be surprised if some really did have drab colors as well.

Agreed. Look at the last pic. The male raptors have splashes of blue, while the females are more plain.