Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...

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

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

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

Researchers have dated volcanic layers at six fossil-bearing sites in Turkey, including one known as Taşhan (shown). The ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...