Scientists think the coloring was an early form of countershading — a camouflage technique that uses two tones to protect an animal from predators. Considering this dinosaur was an herbivore ...

Researchers have discovered that Borealopelta had reddish-brown skin, possibly used for camouflage. This color pattern suggests that the dinosaur lived in a well-lit environment where hiding from ...

That such a large creature needed camouflage indicates the presence of even larger, keen-eyed meat-eating theropod dinosaurs. A new species of dinosaur named Borealopelta markmitchelli has been ...

did require camouflage, it must have had some terrifying predators indeed. The terrifying dinosaur of the day, 110 million years ago, was Acrocanthosaurus, a killing machine that ruled the ...

It has been hailed as the most scientifically accurate dinosaur reconstruction to date ... This colour pattern, known as countershading, is a common form of camouflage in animals today.