The study’s most provocative claim involves the nodosaur’s potential coloration, which the study authors say is preserved in a blackish coating that covers much of the dinosaur’s exterior.

An exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur fossil was uncovered in Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. The discovery, reported by researchers from the University of Reading and the University of ...

The dinosaur's fossils got their unique coloration from the mineral celadonite during the fossilization process. The dinosaur lived 150 million years ago in the late Jurassic Era, making it older ...

Both studies raise hopes that improved knowledge of dinosaur coloration could lead to insights into how some prehistoric animals behaved and why feathers evolved in the first place. The subject of ...

Which one did Sinosauropteryx live in? To find out, the scientists created three-dimensional models of the dinosaur’s coloration pattern and photographed it under different lighting conditions.

This unique coloration is the result of volcanic activity around 50 million to 80 million years ago. The intense heat from volcanic activity replaced the original minerals in the dinosaur’s ...

This armored dinosaur is so magnificently preserved ... The team found evidence that the animal used countershading, meaning that the coloration of its body was darker on the top and tapering ...

And what a dinosaur researchers chose ... suggesting the animal was dark on its top side, with lighter coloration on its chest and backside. This dark top, light underside coloration is known ...

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?

Preserved evidence of skin coloration and patterning can tell us about dinosaur ecology, e.g., if the dinosaur was camouflaged or had display structures.” “We’re in a new era of fossil skin ...

Named "Gnatalie" (pronounced Natalie) for the gnats that swarmed during the excavation, the long-necked, long-tailed herbivorous dinosaur's fossils got its unique coloration, a dark mottled olive ...