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Similar study on a fossil of a juvenile proto-bird has found structural detailing that indicates some of them were shiny, too! Iridescence in birds is not caused by pigments alone; it needs certain feather structures and now we have good enough tools, processes, and fossils to find it.
I'm pretty excited about the triple fossil too! A snake, with a lizard still in its belly, and a bug (beetle I think) in the lizard's gut. And the fossil chunk of hadrosaur skull with actual fossilized circulatory system bits AND brain tissue! And of course the snake from a few years back that was apparently killed by a landslide while raiding a dino nest for hatchlings.
If I actually kept up to date on fossils, I'd probably be even more annoying.
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