Researchers studying dinosaur fossils have discovered that the colours of the ancient animals may have been radically different than previously believed. Dinosaurs were killed off by a piece of ...

Fossils can tell us a lot about dinosaurs, but it's a heck of a job to rearrange all the bones to create a structure of a once-living animal. On the other hand, while we can get an idea of how big a ...

image: Extinct dinosaurs may have had bright color on their skin, scales and beaks in a manner similar to modern birds, according to research led by The University of Texas at Austin. An artist’s ...

Paleoartist Robert Nicholls is modelling the head of a Tyrannosaurus-Rex. A fossil skull dictated the shape of the head but the colour is, at present, informed guesswork. Should he evoke the sorts of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The colorful, speckled eggs of modern birds are an innovation inherited from their nonavian dinosaur ancestors. Researchers found no traces of pigment in eggshells belonging to a long-necked ...

A study finds that there is a 50 percent chance that the common ancestor of birds and dinosaurs had bright colors on its skin, beaks and scales, but 0 percent chance that it had bright colors on its ...