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

Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, ...

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

Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

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

Using their monochrome coats as camouflage, these mammals blended into the shadows to avoid being eaten by dinosaurs at night ...

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 ...

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

Zebra stripes? Leopard print? Neither were in vogue among the earliest mammals during the Age of Dinosaurs. Early mammals and their close relatives probably sported dark, drab coats from snout to ...

While many dinosaurs and pterosaurs flaunted flamboyant feathers, early mammals were a dull lot. A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods ...