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Modern animals display an amazing array of colors, ranging from beautiful reds and golds to blacks and browns, as well as violets, blues, and iridescent colors. Given the impressive diversity of colors in modern animals, it stands to reason that extinct animals may have been just as vibrant. In this presentation, Dr. Jennifer Peteya will discuss how we can reconstruct the colors of some extinct dinosaurs using melanosomes, organelles that house the ubiquitous pigment melanin, which is preserved in the remnants of their feathers. Reconstructing the color of extinct animals helps us to understand better the anatomy, physiology, and ecology of animals that died hundreds of millions of years ago. Dr. Jennifer Peteya has been a paleontologist in the Biological and Health Sciences Department at Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg, since the fall of 2023. Her background is a mix of geology and biology. Jennifer received a Bachelor of Science degree in geology from Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio, and a Master of Science degree in earth sciences from The Ohio State University, where she studied preserved trilobite guts. For her doctoral work, Jennifer switched gears and earned a Ph.D. in Integrated Biosciences from the University of Akron in 2018. Her doctoral research focused on the evolution of melanins and the reconstruction of the melanin-based colors of extinct animals.