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

So, there is this big evolutionary story going on between plants and animals.' 'Everything that lived on land that was larger than a metre in size in the Cretaceous was a dinosaur,' says ...

Old Fossil Teeth of Early Mammals Shocks Archaeologists, 'A Jaw-Dropping Moment' Human ancestors had an adventurous ...

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown in colour, which would have helped them hide from dinosaurs ...

An international research team, including members from the China Geological Survey and Ghent University in Belgium, unveiled the results of their reconstruction of Cretaceous mammal colors in the ...

The fight scene, preserved in a fossil discovered in China, suggests that small mammals preyed on the dinosaurs that ruled Earth during the Cretaceous period more than previously thought ...

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

A group of well-preserved fossils from a variety of species unearthed in China have offered scientists the chance to look at the fur of small mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous. By examining the ...

This is a reconstruction of the prehistoric mammal Spinolestes in the Cretaceous-period Las Hoyas wetland. This image is not associated with the current study but demonstrates a dark-furred mammal ...

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

“Evidence suggests that most mammals were nocturnal in the Jurassic/Cretaceous, perhaps to avoid being eaten by dinosaurs. “It is likely that the extinction of the dinosaurs enabled mammals to ...