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, grey-brown fur for camouflage.

A team of researchers spotted two teeth fossils of creatures living alongside dinosaurs who later turned out to be of human ...

A discovery about the dark fur of early mammals confirms long-held theories about their evolutionary and ecological behavior.

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

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

The planet’s earliest mammals are an important part of our evolutionary history, yet remain shrouded in mystery. One of them, Mixodectes pungens lived in western North America during the early ...

"These extinct early mammals had distinct lifestyles, ranging from ground-dwelling and burrowing to gliding through the treetops like modern-day flying squirrels," Li Ruoshuang, the paper's first ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The discovery of a 62-million-year-old Mixodectes pungens skeleton has provided significant insights into this early Paleocene mammal. The skeleton reveals that ...