Anchiornis huxleyi

For the first time, scientists have reverse-engineered the full-body feather and color pattern of a dinosaur:

The subject of the new study–the 155-million-year-old Anchiornis huxleyi–turns out to have looked something like a woodpecker the size of a chicken, with black-and-white spangled wings and a rusty red crown (see animation above).

They report that a complicated pattern of reddish brown, black, gray, and white feathers covered the fossilized dinosaur, leading to speculation that perhaps this coloration was used for attracting mates or some form of visual communication, as is often the case in living birds.

True-Color Dinosaur Revealed — First Full-Body Rendering