With Skinny, which apparently has the most surface area of skin impressions, researchers have samples from several areas of the body of this diplodocidae but not the 'full suit'. It will be up to them to study the possibilities that this dinosaur has had some feathers in some parts of his body or if he was totally devoid of it.

For more than a century, paleontologists were forced to imagine the appearance of dinosaurs, having found only their bones. Thus, based on the image of contemporary reptiles, researchers imagined dinosaurs with thick skin and dark color, adopting brown and green tones (like crocodiles and lizards), or completely gray.

Indeed, it was very difficult to imagine what a dinosaur appeared like by looking only at its skeleton (especially with the limited scientific means of the nineteenth century). Imagine what would a duck or swan look like without feathers and without a beak? A cat or a rabbit, without fur, without ears? How do you imagine the layer of fat covering certain animals, such as hippos or whales? Or the crest of cocks and turkeys? Or the elephant's trunk?

The past 30 years have challenged these classic patterns and we have witnessed a renaissance of dinosaurs to whom we now lend colors, feathers, or protofeathers.

Therefore, if it is not said or contradicted that Skinny had colored skin, it is however by extrapolating that fact that THÉTIS and the Paleomoove Laboratory have built a red lacquered base to present it, conferring, by visual proximity, a certain attraction to Skinny, Treasure of Humanity, which is now as flamboyant as a work of art.

Moreover, whereas in the past it was impossible to know the skin color of dinosaurs (the pigmentation is not preserved in the fossil state), new scientific procedures have experimented on the remains of feathered dinosaurs found in China that were found in a good state of conservation.

Thus, the result of these analyzes showed pigmented cells, revealing the plumage pattern of some of these extinct creatures.

On subjects preserved in a "mummy" state, some teams around the world are also trying to extract protein fragments from samples taken, following a very interesting study track.

Now, Skinny's petrified skeleton is ready to meet the public at the Durbuy Amusement Park. A post-mortem glory awaits him.

Paleontologists who have studied it since its discovery, are waiting for their description to appear in a specialized scientific journal to reveal the exact name they will give to this new species.

 Collector of droppings !!!

If the skin does not tell us anything about what dinosaurs ate, the study of dinosaur droppings, fossilized feces called coprolites, tells us about the diet of these giants.

These fossilized remains allow us to learn a lot. Wood was found in herbivorous dinosaur droppings (Karen Chin, University of Colorado, Boulder).

In the United States, a 36-year-old history fan, Georges Frandsen, has been collecting dinosaur coprolites since the age of 18. With his collection of 1277 fossilized feces, he broke a world record now featured in the Official Guinness Book of Records.