I had also consulted one of the world's leading experts on bird color: Richard Prum of Yale. Because I knew from the fossil ink that eumelanin could be preserved, I figured I would start by ...

Juraj Polak / Getty Images To the untrained eye, most fossils don’t appear to be bursting with color. The first scientific analysis of fossil color was published only a decade ago, and until ...

making them the first to identify the color of a mammal through its fossil record. And because color can offer clues to an animal’s environment and behavior, the findings also open the door for ...

A 47-million-year-old cicada fossil from Germany’s Messel Pit could teach us about the evolution of insect communication.

The fossil's extraordinary preservation offers ... details such as the contents of its stomach and remnants of its color.

New insights into the flying capabilities of a nonbird dinosaur were drawn from an unusually well-preserved specimen known as ...

Named Lomankus edgecombei, the arthropod is a remarkably bright golden color because it’s preserved in three dimensions by iron pyrite — a mineral better known as fool’s gold. The fossil ...

However, their fossil record was poorly represented in these countries ... The preservation even reveals details such as the contents of its stomach and remnants of its color. The exceptionally ...