Researchers has revealed the color and detailed feather pattern of Microraptor, a pigeon-sized, four-winged dinosaur that lived about 130 million years ago. The non-avian dinosaur's fossilized ...

Last year, researchers analyzed some of these melanosomes and determined that Archaeopteryx sported black feathers. However, the team sampled just a few spots on the feather, meaning the dino-bird ...

Normal black feathers have a sheen to them that betrays the surface — these look like more like a void, and that makes the other colors shine all the brighter. Researchers from Harvard and Yale ...

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The world's oldest bird WASN'T black: 'Dinobird' had patterned, light-coloured feathers, new X-rays reveal. Feathers of ancient specimen are patterned, not black as previously thought ...

Darker feathers heated up much more than light feathers. “We found temperature differences of about 9 degrees between black and white,” says Rogalla. “We would even find these temperature ...

In the very front, near the taped wrapped base, is a fragment of a small, red spotted, black feather. The red spots are mostly round ... The spots are divided by red speckled circular patterns. Credit ...

A black fur felt hat with feathers. The hat is made of blocked fur velour and is flat at the top of the crown. The bottom of the crown tapers inwards giving the crown rounded sides. The sides and ...