An international team of paleontologists, geoscientists and biologists has found via analysis of melanosome patterns in ...

Feathers may have started as simple filaments in ancient dinosaurs, but a team of Swiss researchers is digging deep into the ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, ...

Paleontologists have recently pieced together the colors and patterns of some feathered dinosaurs, using electron microscopes to see tiny preserved structures that used to contain the pigments of ...

The earliest feathered dinosaurs may have evolved their bird ... as well as melanosomes, which affect color, that may have been responsible for color patterning just like present-day lizards.

Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto ...

with Dinosaurs Outside Her Window Scientists also discovered that the feathers were unique from one another as they found “distinct bands” of melanosomes or color pigmentation on the ...

These bright colors could have been used for mating displays, or intimidation of others, just like how modern birds use their ...

But there is one natural wonder that just about all of us can see, simply by stepping outside: dinosaurs using their feathers to fly. Birds are so common, even in the most paved-over places on ...

originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By studying embryonic development of the chicken, researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE ...