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

An international team of paleontologists, geoscientists and biologists has found via analysis of melanosome patterns in ...

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

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

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

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

A 62-million-year-old mammal fossil reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, plant-based diet, and evolutionary ties to primates ...

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 ...

O ne-horned rhinoceroses are the subject of a new study of the differences in appearance, behavior, and evolutionary history ...

"During the Mesozoic, mammals were small," University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology professor John Gittleman said in a ...

Science has published two studies, led by an Ikerbasque researcher at the Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience and ...