Photos: This Dinosaur's Feathers Shimmered with Iridescence

By Laura Geggel
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Colorful bird

Dinosaur feathers

(Image credit: John Bates/The Field Museum)

Another example of an iridescent hummingbird. C. juji may be the oldest iridescent dinosaur on record, but it's not the only one. The dinosaur Microraptor also had iridescent feathers.

[Read more about the iridescent dinosaur]

Laura Geggel
Laura Geggel
Editor

Laura is the archaeology/history and Life's Little Mysteries editor at Live Science. She also reports on general science, including archaeology and paleontology. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Scholastic, Popular Science and Spectrum, a site on autism research. She has won multiple awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association for her reporting at a weekly newspaper near Seattle. Laura holds a bachelor's degree in English literature and psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in science writing from NYU.