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

You might know the Cretaceous Period for big animals such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, or for being the end of the age of dinosaurs. But what was the world like in the millions of years ...

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

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 ...

The early mammals living alongside the dinosaurs might have all had dark-coloured fur. Living a nocturnal lifestyle, the animals’ colours would have helped them blend into the night. Dark brown was in ...

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 ...

A badger-like mammal was sinking its teeth into the ribs of a dinosaur three times its size when they were buried in volcanic ash 125 million years ago, capturing the pair in a deadly embrace.

Around 150 million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, research results suggest that early mammals were likely covered in dark brown fur. This indicates that mammals at the time were ...