Color of Dinosaurs

(AP) - Scientists have known a lot about what dinosaurs looked like -- but now, for the first time, they're finding out what color one of the creatures was. At least part of it was reddish-orange.

The first solid proof comes in the fossilized tail features of a smallish, meat-eating dinosaur that was found in China (Sinosauropteryx).

According to a paper published online in the journal Nature, the 125-million-year-old tail has the same internal cellular coloring agents as the hair of a red-haired person.

The same finding offers what some outside experts say is even more conclusive evidence that some dinosaurs had feathers -- which would further link them to birds.

Drawings of dinosaurs show them in all sorts of hues, usually duller Earth tones, but scientists have only speculated on their coloring.