Colors in nature can be produced by both pigments that absorb some light and microscopic structures that change the wavelength of light. Juraj Polak / Getty Images To the untrained eye, most fossils ...

The traces of organic material found in fossil feathers are remnants of pigments that once gave birds their color, according to Yale scientists whose paper in Biology Letters opens up the potential to ...

Scientists have evaluated fossil color reconstruction methods and proposed a new study framework that improves and expands current practice. Dr Michael Pittman of the Vertebrate Palaeontology ...

Just like the evolution of our TV and movie screens, the technology that scientists deploy today has become better at filling in ancient Earth's coloring book — the past is no longer limited to black ...

On December 9, 1833, the English fossil collector Elizabeth Philpot sent a letter to naturalist William Buckland. In addition to requesting back some vertebrae of a marine reptile Buckland had ...

Preserved pigment cells in a snake fossil — the cream-colored material in the image is fossilized skin — allowed scientists to determine the ancient snake's color in life. Preserved pigment cells in a ...

Our beliefs require us, as people of faith, to support equity and justice for all. This includes health and a clean environment. “Black Lives Matter” is a basic principle, but Black lives are lost ...

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A trick of chemistry has restored fossil turtles and other marine reptiles to their living color. But the result fell far short of the gaudy transformations wrought by Hollywood in its classic ...

The letter to Mexico’s energy minister offered a glowing review of a fossil fuel project in Baja California. Writing in July, three U.S. governors and the chair of the Ute Indian Tribe praised the ...