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Eight tiny but mighty mammals on Earth that are as cute as a button
For the past 65 million years, mammals have thrived across nearly every corner of Earth. In this time span, they have shaped ...
Early mammals were all one color, study suggests
The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...
A 62-million-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal
Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.
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62 million years ago this mysterious mammal called Earth home
Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...
small caged mammal confessions
There was, briefly, a risk that FT Alphaville’s recent Art of the Chart show would occur without any small caged mammal representation. But the arc of the mammalian universe bends towards content, and ...
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Early Mammals' Fur Had No Color, Was All Dark Grey
Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, ...
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125 million-year-old fossil of giant venomous scorpion that lived alongside dinosaurs discovered in China
Extremely rare fossil of an ancient scorpion unearthed at China's Jehol Biota. The scorpion would've been a key species in ...
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Dark coats may have helped the earliest mammals hide from hungry dinosaurs
During the age of dinosaurs, early mammals probably lacked the stripes and spots of their modern relatives, having uniformly dark, drab coats.