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.

Scientists from the University of Adelaide have used some of the most sophisticated quantum cameras to capture life at its ...

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 ...

Toxic algae off the coast of Southern California is killing or sickening hundreds of sea lions, dolphins and seabirds, while ...

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 ...

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

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

Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of ...

BEIJING -- The early mammals that lived alongside dinosaurs over 150 million years ago likely had dark, dusky brown fur, helping them blend into the night and evade predators. A collaborative team ...

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 has ...