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

Vinther came up with a method to predict dinosaur colors based on how the creatures’ melanosomes appeared under the microscope—whether they looked like sausages, meatballs, something in between, or ...

For the longest time, we had no idea what color dinosaurs were. We could see their bones. We could study their size, their ...

Scientists have long been trying to reconstruct the appearance of dinosaurs. The tidbits they are able to piece together from fossils and other analysis are displayed in museums, educational materials ...