What color is a Tyrannosaurus Rex? Most people would answer grayish brown since that's what we saw chasing Sam Neil for two movies-worth of Jurassic Park, but the truth is that paleontologists have ...

Scientists have found evidence of some of the original coloration of a dinosaur that lived about 125 million years ago, showing that it had rings of orange-brown bristly feathers around its tail.

Dr Jakob Vinther began study on the colors of dinosaurs many years ago. His first study showed the color of the animal you'll see below this paragraph – a dinosaur by the name of Anchiornis huxleyi.

Deciphering microscopic clues hidden within fossils, scientists have uncovered the vibrant colors that adorned a feathered dinosaur extinct for 150 million years, a Yale University-led research team ...

For the first time ever, paleontologists can look at dinosaurs in color. In last week's issue of the journal Nature, scientists described the discovery of melanosomes, biological structures that give ...

What color were dinosaurs? Well, at least one of them had a feathered mohawk tail in a subdued palette of chestnut and white stripes. That is what a team of Chinese and British scientists reported ...

Dinosaurs have always held a special place in the imagination of children and adults across the globe. From their majestic sizes to their mysterious extinction, these ancient creatures have enchanted ...

The stories of dinosaurs’ lives may be written in fossilized pigments, but scientists are still wrangling over how to read them. In September, paleontologists deduced a dinosaur’s habitat from ...

Sinosauropteryx, a turkey-size carnivorous dinosaur, is the first dinosaur—excluding birds, which many paleontologists consider to be dinosaurs—to have its color scientifically established. In 1996, ...