The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

A team of researchers spotted two teeth fossils of creatures living alongside dinosaurs who later turned out to be of human ...

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

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

This animal lived during the time of the dinosaurs. Arambourgiania lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period (72.1 million years ago to 66 million years ago). The first fossil of this flying ...

An international research team, including members from the China Geological Survey and Ghent University in Belgium, unveiled the results of their reconstruction of Cretaceous mammal colors in the ...

“Evidence suggests that most mammals were nocturnal in the Jurassic/Cretaceous, perhaps to avoid being eaten by dinosaurs. “It is likely that the extinction of the dinosaurs enabled mammals to ...

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

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown in colour, which would have helped them hide from dinosaurs ...

A group of well-preserved fossils from a variety of species unearthed in China have offered scientists the chance to look at the fur of small mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous. By examining the ...