At one point or another, almost every general book about dinosaurs I have ever seen has said the same thing: we cannot know what color dinosaurs were. Scientists have found the skin impressions of ...

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.

Some were iridescent, and others were camouflaged. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. No animals have experienced a more dramatic ...

This article was written by Andrew Moseman of Discover. As much as paleontologists have sorted out about the dinosaurs, one of the main aspects of their appearance-what color they were-has remained ...

The finding may also open up a new world of prehistoric color, illuminating the role of color in dinosaur behavior and allowing the first accurately colored dinosaur re-creations, according to the ...

Paleontologists at Yale University say they were able to analyze cells from a fossil to determine the actual coloration of an extinct feathered dinosaur. Jennifer Guevin was a managing editor at CNET, ...

The discovery of microscopic color-making structures in fossilized feathers has recently made it possible for scientists to picture dinosaurs and ancient birds in their natural hues. But a group of ...

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 ...

Who decides what color dinosaurs are? It's more art than science in many cases. — -- Michael Skrepnick isn’t a paleontologist, but he may have done more to influence your notion of what dinosaurs ...

With little more than mineralized bones to study, scientists and artists have only been able to guess what color dinosaurs were. But a new study, utilizing scanning electron micrography, has detected ...