Colour mystery Predicting the colour of fuzzy dinosaurs like T-rex and Sinosauropteryx just got way more complicated, according to a new study. The findings also suggest that those who gained feathers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first birds evolved after the feathers of a group of dinosaurs received a burst of colour, a study shows. Research has found that, as well as giving birds their appearance, the pigment chemicals ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...