Early mammals were all one color, study suggests
The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...
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Fur colour of ancient mammal relatives revealed for the first time
This changed in the late 2000s, when researchers studying ancient feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs such as Anchiornis ...
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Fossils reveal what the fur of early mammals looked like
A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...
New research uncovers fur color of early mammal ancestors for first time
A joint research team from China and abroad has for the first time found that mammaliaforms from the Jurassic and Cretaceous ...
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145 Million Years Old Fossil Teeth of Early Mammals Shocks Archaeologists, 'A Jaw-Dropping Moment'
A team of researchers spotted two teeth fossils of creatures living alongside dinosaurs who later turned out to be of human ...
A 62-million-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal
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 ...
Could dinosaurs still exist somewhere in the world?
It’s fun to imagine secret dinosaur survivors living today, hidden in a remote corner of Earth. But the truth of who made it ...
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Dark coats may have helped the earliest mammals hide from hungry dinosaurs
During the age of dinosaurs, early mammals probably lacked the stripes and spots of their modern relatives, having uniformly dark, drab coats.
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Mesozoic mammals had uniform dark fur
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 ...