The Idaho Museum of Natural History will hold a fun and lighthearted look at the biology and ecology of the world depicted in ...

An analysis of six species of mammal fossils that lived during the late Jurassic period ... after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that led to the extinction of dinosaurs, mammals ...

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

In a thrilling revelation for paleontologists and history buffs alike, a new species of early mammal has been discovered in ...

“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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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