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 ...

New research shows fossil skin can reveal color patterns in young Diplodocus, changing old ideas about sauropod appearance.

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The meat-eating dinosaur Dilophosaurus wetherilli has eight major injuries (indicated by the stars), twice as many as Sue, the Tyrannosaurus rex at the Field Museum in Natural History in Chicago.

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 ...

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 ...

Some were iridescent, and others were camouflaged. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. No animals have experienced a more dramatic ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Jurassic-age dinosaur suffered from eight devastating maladies during its lifetime that likely caused the paleo-beast an enormous amount of pain and possibly made it difficult to hunt, a new study ...

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 ...