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

Using their monochrome coats as camouflage, these mammals blended into the shadows to avoid being eaten by dinosaurs at night ...

Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

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

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

Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, ...

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

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

The early mammals living alongside the dinosaurs might have all had dark-coloured fur. Living a nocturnal lifestyle, the ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

Skeleton shows Mixodectes pungens lived in trees and primarily ate leaves during the Paleocene epoch, highlighting its unique ...

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