For this project we made both a red and a green dinosaur. You can make yours whatever color you like! For the instructions, ...

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

compounds that give modern bird eggs color and speckling. Bird eggs, such as these from tinamous, get their colors from pigments including protoporphyrin and biliverdin. Some fossil dinosaur eggs ...

For instance, paleontologists think a tiny chicken-size dinosaur named Microraptor had feathers on all four limbs to help it glide or even fly. Feathers may have been very colorful in some species.

During the age of dinosaurs, early mammals probably lacked the stripes and spots of their modern relatives, having uniformly dark, drab coats.

The dinosaur's plumage may have been used for mating or other visual displays, similar to how modern birds use their colorful feathers, or to help regulate body temperature. The feathers might ...