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 ...

Science and Environment News The colors of a feathered dinosaur emerge as University of Akron researcher and colleagues analyze fossil Updated: Feb. 04, 2010, 6:11 p.m. | Published: Feb. 04, 2010 ...

"For a dinosaur scientist, this is like the birth of color TV," said Dr. Luis M. Chiappe, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

The discovery of microscopic color-making structures in fossilized feathers has recently made it possible for scientists to picture dinosaurs and ancient birds in their natural hues.

An analysis of 12 fossilized dinosaur eggshells from Europe, Asia, North America and South America detected the same two pigments present in colorful birds eggs in a dinosaur group called ...

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 ...

Scientists guided by small structures preserved in fossilized skin have deciphered the color and camouflage pattern of a little dinosaur with a parrot-like beak and bristles on its tail that ...

An explosion in melanin color diversity likely came with this range in melanosome shape. That doesn't mean that ancient lizards, turtles, and dinosaurs with scales or just filaments weren't colorful.

One of the dinosaurs Benton and his colleagues looked at, known as Sinornithosaurus, was a 125 million-year old squirrel-sized dinosaur covered in complex feathers.

Dinosaur Sighting: A Stegosaurus of a Different Color Is this what paleontologists see after having one too many? Riley Black - Science Correspondent August 17, 2011 ...

The news that many dinosaurs were likely covered in a thick layer of feathers may make them seem a little less imposing — but it also means they may have been intensely colorful. Now scientists ...