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 ...

Remember drawing dinosaurs in grade school, when the teacher would tell you to use any color you like, because we’ll never know for sure what these amazing prehistoric beasts looked like? Forget that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discover the Sinosauropteryx color patterns, revealing its striking striped tail and vibrant red mohawk, hinting at feathered dinosaurs' appearance. "A ginger-haired person would have more spherical ...

Why were dinosaurs covered in a cloak of feathers long before the early bird species Archaeopteryx first attempted flight? Researchers postulate that these ancient reptiles had a highly developed ...

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 ...

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.

Asking what color dinosaurs were is like asking what color birds are. The group is huge and diverse, and if you pick a shade, you’re likely to find it somewhere. But despite the resigned belief that ...

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

But the previous research, published in Nature, had found pigments only on a few isolated parts of dinosaurs (see pictures)—and had used less rigorous methods for assigning colors to the fossilized, ...