The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...

Old Fossil Teeth of Early Mammals Shocks Archaeologists, 'A Jaw-Dropping Moment' Human ancestors had an adventurous ...

Jurassic mammals had dark fur Fossils that preserve the details of Jurassic and Cretaceous mammals in spectacular detail have allowed scientists to determine, for the first time, the likely colour ...

A joint research team from China and abroad has for the first time found that mammaliaforms from the Jurassic and Cretaceous ...

"These extinct early mammals had distinct lifestyles, ranging from ground-dwelling and burrowing to gliding through the ...

This changed in the late 2000s, when researchers studying ancient feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs such as Anchiornis ...

During the age of dinosaurs, early mammals probably lacked the stripes and spots of their modern relatives, having uniformly dark, drab coats.

to determine the fur color of six ancient mammal relatives, including a newly discovered species from 158.5 million years ago in the Late Jurassic. By analyzing melanosome shapes in 116 living ...

The fossil of a pony-sized dinosaur has been revealed for the first time - more than 50 years after it was first spotted in a ...

The early mammals that lived alongside the dinosaurs upwards of 150 million years ago (mya) were likely covered in dark and dusky greyish-brown fur, according to a quantitative reconstruction of ...