A new dinosaur species has potentially been recovered after the reconstruction of its remains. The first-of-its-kind green dinosaur fossil was discovered in southeastern Utah, and was reassembled ...

Green Horn The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles has a fascinating new exhibit in the form of a dinosaur that was unearthed in the Badlands of Utah back in 2007 — with, strikingly, green bones.

A type of bird-like dinosaur that lived in what is now China during the Cretaceous period — about 145.5 million to 65.5 million years ago — laid eggs that had a bluish-green tint, the first ...

A research team unveiled this week what they contend is the most lifelike full-size model of a dinosaur ever created. Their study on the animal’s coloring and camouflage will be published in the ...

Popular imagery is that dinosaurs were a bland color, but most birds are have bland color palates as well. Then you have parrots or peacocks. In between the extremes of bland and flamboyant, there are ...

Dinosaur faces and feet may have popped with color New study traces the probability of color from modern bids to dinosaurs Date: December 9, 2021 Source: University of Texas at Austin Summary: A ...

In 2016 and 2017, researchers used laser imaging to study fossilized eggshell samples from non-avian dinosaurs, modern birds and a stem bird to look for the pigments, Wiesmann explained.

Their conclusion: the brooding dinosaurs were probably male. The new egg color evidence “adds the missing piece of the puzzle,” Wiemann says.

Bird eggs get their color from two pigments: a red-brown pigment called protoporphyrin, which creates speckles and is found only in an eggshell’s soft, outer cuticle layer; and a blue-green ...

The diversity recovered for dinosaur egg colors mirrors that found for modern bird eggs. (Image credit: Jasmina Wiemann) Co-author Mark Norell, the Macaulay Curator of Paleontology at the American ...