Multi-coloured Dinosaur Discovered

Scientists have found a four-winged dinosaur with multi-coloured feathers including a red Mohawk!

The dinosaur, Anchiornis huxleyi, lived in the late Jurassic Period in China.

After studying its 150 million year old fossil paleontologists believe its body was grey, it had speckles on its face, white feathers with black tips on its wings and legs and, amazingly, a reddish-brown Mohawk-like crest.

Researchers think the colours would have helped it attract a mate and its four wings may have allowed it to glide from tree to tree.

It is the first time a whole dinosaur fossil has been analysed in such detail for colour.

"It's like a big chicken but more slender and graceful," says palaeontologist Jacob Vinther.

"It's an extraordinarily beautiful fossil. You can see all the feathers and they're all attached to the bone.”