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

Scientists have unearthed actual color information from 150-million-year-old dinosaur skin, revealing sauropods were not just ...

A study finds that there is a 50 percent chance that the common ancestor of birds and dinosaurs had bright colors on its skin, beaks and scales, but 0 percent chance that it had bright colors on its ...

One of the world’s only green dinosaur fossils will soon go on view in a new wing of the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles. “It’s pretty green. It’s not neon green. But it has a distinct green ...

GOLDEN, Colo. — Local artist Pat Madison went big and wanted everyone to see it. Starting in March, when the stay-at-home order was issued in Colorado, Madison starting putting his family together -- ...

With little more than mineralized bones to study, scientists and artists have only been able to guess what color dinosaurs were. But a new study, utilizing scanning electron micrography, has detected ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The fossil record is always surrounded by ...