New research shows fossil skin can reveal color patterns in young Diplodocus, changing old ideas about sauropod appearance.

Dinosaur eggs had the blues. Pigments detected in 66-million-year-old eggs from China suggest that the shells came in intense shades of bluish-green, scientists report online May 15 in PeerJ Preprints ...

Vinther figured there was no reason pigment grains and melanosomes wouldn't survive in other fossilized creatures. He took a closer look at the suspicious dark smudges in an extinct bird fossil and ...

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

The world's first birds, along with dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, likely sported colorful, patterned exteriors. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles ...

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 ...

I seem to have ended up as the Dinosaur Feather Color Bureau Chief at the New York Times. After discovering colors in fossil bird feathers, scientists found colors in dinosaurs last week. But this ...