The more paleontologists dig, the more feathered dinosaurs they find. Almost three decades have passed since the scientific ...

Some dinosaurs sported red, white, or iridescent black colors, and showed patterns of colorful patches, spots, or stripes. A small dinosaur called Sinosauropteryx from China, for instance, is ...

Birds Got Their Colorful, Speckled Eggs From Dinosaurs A new study found that birds' dinosaur relatives had eggs with traces of two pigments—a red-brown one and a blue-green one.

Crocodiles and turtles bury their white eggs, which means they don’t need to be camouflaged. But many birds have colored eggshells that camouflage their eggs in nests that are exposed to the … ...

Until last week, paleontologists could offer no clear-cut evidence for the color of dinosaurs. Then researchers provided evidence that a dinosaur called Sinosauropteryx had a white-and-ginger ...

Some dinosaurs, such as the (Caudipteryx zoui) above, had brightly colored feathers.New research suggests that modern birds inherited their own color varieties from their feathered dinosaur ancestors.

A remarkable finding has surfaced in the colorful, fossil-rich badlands of Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park: North America’s oldest known pterosaur. The newly identified species — a flying ...

Eggshell color, in all its glory, is a trait that comes from long-ago animals: the dinosaurs. Birds, strange as it seems, are living dinosaurs, the last of a lineage that otherwise went extinct 66 ...

If you come across a bird nest there’s usually a pretty good way of telling what kind of feathered friend was responsible for it, even … ...

Dinosaurs laid colorful eggs. Birds lay colorful eggs. You do the math. But really though: A study from last year found that oviraptors, a dinosaur of the late Cretaceous period, laid blue-green ...