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

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 ...

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

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

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

The early mammals that lived alongside the dinosaurs upwards of 150 million years ago (mya) were likely covered in dark and dusky greyish-brown fur, according to a quantitative reconstruction of ...

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

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

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals that lived during ... Given that these mammals are all thought to have been nocturnal, it is no surprise that they were all rather plain.

finding that the humble ancestors of modern mammals had solid dark fur without patterns. "This dark color may have helped them hide from dinosaurs," said Zhou Changfu, a co-author from Shandong ...