What color is a Tyrannosaurus Rex? Most people would answer grayish brown since that's what we saw chasing Sam Neil for two movies-worth of Jurassic Park, but the truth is that paleontologists have ...

Dr Jakob Vinther began study on the colors of dinosaurs many years ago. His first study showed the color of the animal you'll see below this paragraph – a dinosaur by the name of Anchiornis huxleyi.

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 ...

Dinosaurs have always held a special place in the imagination of children and adults across the globe. From their majestic sizes to their mysterious extinction, these ancient creatures have enchanted ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

ASPEN – There are plenty of ways for kids to learn about dinosaurs: books, movies, museums, action figures, the Internet. And there are plenty of ways for kids to share what they’ve learned: book ...

Sinosauropteryx, a turkey-size carnivorous dinosaur, is the first dinosaur—excluding birds, which many paleontologists consider to be dinosaurs—to have its color scientifically established. In 1996, ...

Dinosaurs, the mystical and often fierce giants that once roamed planet Earth, seem to come alive in the minds of many a child. It was this imagination that led one young dino enthusiast to attempt to ...

Over the past couple decades paleontologists have come to realize that many dinosaurs bore colorful coats of feathers, rather than just the drab leathery hides with which we’re all familiar. Animals ...

No one ever really notices the color of dinosaurs in illustrations or movies do they? They are varying shades of green, grey, brown or even blue. But did you ever wonder how the movie makers, ...