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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...

The world's first birds, along with dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, likely sported colorful, patterned exteriors. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles ...

In 2011 a heavy machine operator in a Canadian oilsands mine struck his shovel on an extraordinary find — the most exquisitely preserved armored dinosaur the world has ever seen. On Thursday, it ...

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 ...

There are a few steps between discovering an animal’s fossil and sussing out what it actually looked like. Step one, as this Smithsonian guide explains, is to put the bones together, drawing on ...

Tiny imprints in the feathers of fossilized dinosaurs have alternately been attributed to both melanosomes—pockets of melanin—and bacteria. Previous studies suggested that the imprints discovered in ...