Fossil find: Fossil of dinosaur killed in asteroid strike discovered in North Dakota, scientists say Meanwhile, a team of international researchers were examining the 115-million-year-old fossil ...

Dinosaurs; True Color of Dinosaur Feathers Debated. News. By Megan Gannon published 29 March 2013 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Feather color in dinosaurs, for example, may reveal whether color patterns were useful for camouflage or peacock-like courtship displays, and if there were color differences between the sexes, ...

How we finally figured out the color of dinosaur feathers. Excerpt: The Evolution of Beauty. By Richard O. Prum. Published May 11, 2017 11:23 PM EDT. pexels.

The discovery of microscopic color-making structures in fossilized feathers has recently made it possible for scientists to picture dinosaurs and ancient birds in their natural hues.

Another week, another colorful feathered dinosaur. Hot on the heels of a recent report identifying pigments in fossilized dino feathers and filaments (SN Online: 1/27/10), a different team of ...

An international research team including University of Akron scientists has done the seemingly impossible – breaking a microscopic code hidden in a 160 million-year-old feathered dinosaur fossil ...

The discovery of microscopic color-making structures in fossilized feathers has recently made it possible for scientists to picture dinosaurs and ancient birds in their natural hues.

The color of some feathers on dinosaurs and early birds has been identified for the first time. The research found that the theropod dinosaur Sinosauropteryx had simple bristles -- precursors of ...

One of the dinosaurs Benton and his colleagues looked at, known as Sinornithosaurus, was a 125 million-year old squirrel-sized dinosaur covered in complex feathers.

For the first time, scientists have decoded the full-body color patterns of a dinosaur, a new study says—apparently one-upping last week's announcement of a partial recreation.

woodpecker feather (right side). Under the scanning electron microscope there are melanosomes in the dark but not the light areas of the fossil (far left arrows). The corresponding areas are shown ...