Picture a bird egg: Perhaps it’s the cocoa brown of a free-range chicken. Or a robin’s creamy blue-green. If it’s a quail egg, it has inky speckles. Those colors and variations, according to a new ...

If we asked you to picture dinosaur eggs in your mind, what would you see? A nest full of massive gray or tan eggs? That’s the consensus among most people, but a new study published this week in the ...

An analysis shows that feathered-covered dinosaurs came in different colorsClarke et al It’s probably hard to believe, but there was a time, not that long ago, when scientists thought dinosaurs were ...

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The rainbow of hues seen in modern bird eggs probably evolved in birds' dinosaur ancestors, which had eggs with colorful and speckled shells. That's according to a new study of fossil eggs in the ...

Bird eggs come in a host of beautiful colors and patterns, including the coffee-colored swirls of prinia eggs, the deep green of emu eggs, and the brilliant blue of the eggs laid by the humble robin.

Picture a bird egg: Perhaps it’s the cocoa brown of a free-range chicken. Or a robin’s creamy blue-green. If it’s a quail egg, it has inky speckles. Those colors and variations, according to a new ...

A study finds that there is a 50 percent chance that the common ancestor of birds and dinosaurs had bright colors on its skin, beaks and scales, but 0 percent chance that it had bright colors on its ...

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 if the bird itself isn't around. The color, size, and pattern of ...

Picture a bird egg: Perhaps it's the cocoa brown of a free-range chicken. Or a robin's creamy blue-green. If it's a quail egg, it has inky speckles. Those colors and variations, according to a new ...