{"id":2444,"date":"2015-10-12T11:06:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T16:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=2444"},"modified":"2015-10-13T11:14:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T16:14:59","slug":"preserving-extinct-mammal-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/10\/12\/preserving-extinct-mammal-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"Preserving Extinct Mammal Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Newswise<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/international-researchers-detect-pigment-in-fossils-revealing-color-of-extinct-mammals\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that melanin is retained during fossilization of mammals:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe have now studied the tissues from fish, frogs, and tadpoles, hair from mammals, feathers from birds, and ink from octopus and squids,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/caitlincolleary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin Colleary<\/a>, a doctoral student of geosciences in the College of Science at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vt.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia Tech<\/a> and lead author of the study. \u201cThey all preserve melanin, so it\u2019s safe to say that melanin is really all over the place in the fossil record. Now we can confidently fill in some of the original color patterns of these ancient animals.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The researchers said microscopic structures traditionally believed to be fossilized bacteria are in fact melanosomes \u2014 organelles within cells that contain melanin, the pigment that gives colors to hair, feathers, skin, and eyes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if this can be combined with modern scanning techniques for high volume processing.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/natural-sciences\/breakthrough-color-extinct-mammals-can-now-be-known-fossils-alone.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Graham Richard<\/a> @ <em><strong>Treehugger.com<\/strong><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newswise reports that melanin is retained during fossilization of mammals: \u201cWe have now studied the tissues from fish, frogs, and tadpoles, hair from mammals, feathers from birds, and ink from octopus and squids,\u201d said Caitlin Colleary, a doctoral student of geosciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech and \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/10\/12\/preserving-extinct-mammal-colors\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}