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 ...

Scientists have found evidence of some of the original coloration of a dinosaur that lived about 125 million years ago, showing that it had rings of orange-brown bristly feathers around its tail.

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.

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 ...

Remember drawing dinosaurs in grade school, when the teacher would tell you to use any color you like, because we’ll never know for sure what these amazing prehistoric beasts looked like? Forget that ...

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 ...

Researchers now have a new idea of what a certain type of duck-billed dinosaur looked like, thanks to experts from the University of Chicago who uncovered dinosaur mummies. In a new paper published in ...

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 ...