X-ray analysis of the melanosomes further supported that theory.

透過 X 光分析再次支持這個理論。

These little organelles called melanosomes are associated with color.

这些小细胞器被称为黑素体，与颜色有关。

The melanocytes make the pigment, which is then packed into small packets of pigment called melanosomes.

黑素细胞制造色素，然后将其包装成称为黑素体的小包色素。

Other dark-colored fish tend to have unpigmented gaps between melanosomes.

其他深色鱼的黑色素体之间通常有未着色的间隙。

Well, you know what else has melanosomes?

你知道还有什么也含有黑色素体吗？

But to Vinther's eye, they looked like special structures that help give animals color -- melanosomes.

但对文瑟尔说，它们看起像帮助动物呈现颜色的特殊结构——黑色素体。

Melanosomes are responsible for all of your body's coloration, from your skin to your eyes to your hair.

黑色素体负责你身体的所有颜色，从皮肤到眼睛再到头发。

And what we see is that it is composed of tiny little oblate structures called melanosomes.

我们看到它是由一种被称为黑色素体的微小扁球形结构组成的。

Each melanosome contains some type of melanin which is a natural pigment.

每个黑色素体都包含某种类型的黑色素，这是一种天然色素。

When light hits the thin front surface of a bird's hollow melanosome, some is reflected, and some passes through.

当光线照射到鸟类中空黑素体的薄前，一部分光线被反射， 另一部分则穿透而过。

It forms hollow nanostructures called melanosomes, which can shine in all the colors of the rainbow.

它形成了中空的纳米结构，称为黑素体，能够闪耀出彩虹的所有颜色。

For example, long, skinny melanosomes make black and gray, like the black you find around cardinals' eyes.

例如， 长而细的黑色素体呈现黑色和灰色，就像你在主教雀眼睛周围看到的黑色一样。

The melanosomes are packed together inside cells, and other factors, like how the melanosomes are arranged within the feather, also matter.

黑素体聚集在细胞内部，而其他因素， 比如黑素体在羽毛中的排列方式，也同样重要。

The specimen was an extremely well-preserved fossil of Psittacosaurus, with pigment-containing structures called melanosomes that gave clues to the dinosaur’s coloration.

该标本是一种保存极其完好的鹦鹉嘴龙化石，其中含有色素的结构称为黑色素体， 这些结构提供了关于恐龙颜色的线索。

But if melanosomes are short and round, they make reddish colors, like what you see on red tail hawks.

但如果黑色素体短而圆，它们就会产生红色， 就像你在红尾鹰身上看到的那样。

The melanosomes' size, shape and arrangement may help direct light that isn't absorbed by an individual melanosome to others in the layer.

黑色素体的大小、形状和排列可能会引导未被单个黑色素体吸收的光线到层中的其他黑色素体。

As long as a dinosaur is preserved with feathers, or some other structure that keeps melanosomes intact, scientists can figure out their basic colors!

只要恐龙保存有羽毛，或者一些能保持黑色素体完整的其他结构，科学家就能推断出它们的基本颜色！

Experts can look at the feather of a living bird, like a cardinal or a crow, and see what kinds of melanosomes make that feather's color.

专家可以观察活鸟的羽毛，比如知更鸟或乌鸦， 看看是什么样的黑色素体造就了这种羽毛的颜色。

They compared these microraptor melanosomes to those of modern birds and found a close similarity, though not a perfect match, to the iridescent teal feathers found on duck wings.

他们将这些微盗龙的黑素体与现代鸟类的黑素体进行比较，发现与鸭翼上发现的蓝绿色虹彩羽毛非常相似，尽管并非完全吻合。

And one specimen of the little horned dinosaur Psittacosaurus was even found to have melanosomes in its skin, revealing that the dino was dark on top and light underneath.

一只小角恐龙 Psittacosaurus 的标本甚至被发现在它的皮肤上有黑素体，这明这种恐龙的皮肤是黑色的， 下是浅色的。