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 ...

Discover how the early feathered dinosaur, Anchiornis, showcased impressive coloration through detailed melanosome mapping. The shape and arrangement of melanosomes help produce the color of feathers, ...

Over the years, paleontologists have developed sophisticated methods for deducing dinosaur anatomy from even the smallest fossil fragments. They’ve rebuilt skeletal systems and discovered information ...

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 ...

While the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park were scaly, greenish-brown monsters, dinosaurs in real life may have looked more like flamboyantly feathered peacocks. A study by Yale researchers Jakob Vinther ...

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, ...