Shawkey’s team started by looking at the melanosomes in the fur of a diverse range of 116 living mammals. From this, the ...

Scientists Analyze Fossils of Mouse-Like Mammal That Existed With Dinosaurs, Find Major Growth Transformation It is no secret ...

This changed in the late 2000s, when researchers studying ancient feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs such as Anchiornis ...

New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...

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

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

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

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

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly gleaned from analyzing ...

Ancient mammals that lived in the time of dinosaurs were mostly the same dark-brown colour, according to a new study providing clues about how those mammals evolved as they faced giant predators.

From this, the researchers developed a model that predicts fur colour based on melanosome shape and applied this to six fossils of different early mammals. All six fossils came from the same ...