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 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.

Scientists have discovered a rare fossil of a giant, venomous scorpion that lived 125 million years ago, offering new insights into ancient ecosystems.

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

Republican members of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources took aim Wednesday at the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), arguing both landmark statutes ...

Jurassic mammals had dark fur Fossils that preserve the details of Jurassic and Cretaceous mammals in spectacular detail have allowed scientists to determine, for the first time, the likely colour ...

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 from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown in colour, which would have helped them hide from dinosaurs ...

This changed in the late 2000s, when researchers studying ancient feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs such as Anchiornis ...