How different would our world be if dinosaurs were alive today? The answer is: very. Prehistoric in the present? We all love ...

The extinction of dinosaurs reshaped rivers, forests, and landscapes—changes still recorded in the rock layers across North America.

Colors in nature can be produced by both pigments that absorb some light and microscopic structures that change the wavelength of light. Juraj Polak / Getty Images To the untrained eye, most fossils ...

The colorful, speckled eggs of modern birds are an innovation inherited from their nonavian dinosaur ancestors. Researchers found no traces of pigment in eggshells belonging to a long-necked ...

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 ...

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 ...

At one point or another, almost every general book about dinosaurs I have ever seen has said the same thing: we cannot know what color dinosaurs were. Scientists have found the skin impressions of ...

After garnering worldwide attention last year for her research on the origins of egg color in birds, Yale paleontologist Jasmina Wiemann has taken a second look at her eggshells. Wiemann had found ...