Miss Beth Wilkinson
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I am interested in the colour patterns of feathered dinosaurs and what that reveals about their ecology.
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Research interests
While my past interests have covered a large range of palaeontology, currently I am focused on dinosaur colouration.
My research currently is centered around a Jeholornis specimen in which i am describing in detail its feathering and their colour patterns using SEM photos of fossil melanosomes. Using modern birds as comparisons, I want to better the understand the ecology of Jeholornis as well as the evolution of colour in feathers.