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 ...

Fossils can tell us a lot about dinosaurs, but it's a heck of a job to rearrange all the bones to create a structure of a once-living animal. On the other hand, while we can get an idea of how big a ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists have for the first time confirmed color in a dinosaur. Don't think purple Barney, but reddish-orange Conan O'Brien. The first solid proof of pigmentation has been spotted in ...

A new study of fossilized bird feathers from 100 million years ago has determined that the broad stripes visible on the feathers do indicate the color of that ancient bird's plumage. Researchers say ...

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 ...

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 ...