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 ...

In 2011 a heavy machine operator in a Canadian oilsands mine struck his shovel on an extraordinary find — the most exquisitely preserved armored dinosaur the world has ever seen. On Thursday, it ...

woodpecker feather (right side). Under the scanning electron microscope there are melanosomes in the dark but not the light areas of the fossil (far left arrows). The corresponding areas are shown at ...

Pterosaurs, flying reptiles that coexisted with dinosaurs, have been on a roll lately — or, rather, their fossils have, as a plethora of recent discoveries has helped flesh out the evolutionary ...

Scientists studying ancient fossils of a small feathered dinosaur have discovered that it had a bandit’s mask as well as a striped tail, rather like today’s raccoons. The eye-catching plumage of ...

With little more than mineralized bones to study, scientists and artists have only been able to guess what color dinosaurs were. But a new study, utilizing scanning electron micrography, has detected ...

After garnering worldwide attention last year for her research on the origins of egg color in birds, Yale paleontologist Jasmina Wiemann has taken a second look at her eggshells. Wiemann had found ...

Dinosaurs may be known as “terrible lizards,” stomping about with their scaly tales and cruelly clawed feet. But some were as cute as kittens, reveals a new study on a chicken-sized dinosaur found in ...

In 1996 the scientific world was stunned to learn that a fossil dinosaur with feathers had been found in China. The animal, shown in a 1990s artist's reconstruction, was Sinosauropteryx, a turkey-size ...

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 ...