A discovery about the dark fur of early mammals confirms long-held theories about their evolutionary and ecological behavior.

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

The Late Cretaceous period was 100.5-66 million years ago during ... were a variety of different types of mammals. Up until recently, it was believed that these mammals were all quite small ...

3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and tone of life on Earth. At the start of the period ... the landscape. And mammals sat poised to fill the ...

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they all had greyish-brown fur. “They were dinosaur food,” says Matthew Shawkey at ...

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

There were small, furry mammals running around at the feet of the dinosaurs ... It's not clear why some dinosaurs and pterosaurs, such as Quetzalcoatlus, got so large during the Cretaceous Period.

By the end of the Cretaceous, flowering plants had become dominant, providing food for burgeoning populations of insects, which in turn became another high-quality food source for the mammals ...

While most mammals of the era were small ... uncovering fossils from the Late Cretaceous period. In 2016, John Foster first noticed a piece of mammal jaw hidden beneath a slab of sandstone ...

QUESTION: Are ancient lacewings, which lived during the Cretaceous period, related to the butterfly? No. Ancient lacewings found in fossils from northern China are known as kalligrammatid ...

The end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago, marked the dramatic extinction of the dinosaurs. Until now, our understanding of this mass extinction has been largely shaped by fossils ...

By the turn of the 21st century, however, scientists began noticing that dates on the various mammalian phylogenies weren't adding up: molecular data suggested that modern mammals originated during ...