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

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

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

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 ...

This is a reconstruction of the prehistoric mammal Spinolestes in the Cretaceous-period Las Hoyas wetland. This image is not associated with the current study but demonstrates a dark-furred mammal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...