Dinosaurs had coloured skin!! This is what the scientists have discovered from the fossil remains of these huge creatures.

China's Sinosauropteryx was a meat eater was of orange coloured with white stripped tail.

This discovery may point towards the hairlike filament, Dino fuzz is related to the bird feathers.

Fucheng Zhang of China's Institute for Vertebrate Palaeontology said that this discovery will highlight the role of colours in dinosaurs' behaviour.

Yale graduate student, Jakob Vinther along with colleagues, first time discovered melanosomes in the hundred million year old feather using electron microscope. And the following year found the iridescent property of the feather due to refracting surfaces created by stacked melanosomes.

Hans Dieter-Sues, a palaeontologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D. C has supported this study published online by journal Nature.

Eumelanin, associated with black and grey feathers, and phaeomelanin, for reddish brown to yellow feathers, are two most common types of melanin found in present birds.

Melanosomes discovery in dinosaurs may reveal the colour was either for camouflage or for courtship displays like peacock or was for differentiating between sexes.