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

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

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 Ghent ...

By the end of the Cretaceous, flowering plants had become dominant, providing food for burgeoning populations of insects, which in turn became another high-quality food source for the mammals ...

And mammals sat poised to fill the void that soon ... extinction of more than half the planet's species at the end of the Cretaceous remains a matter of scientific debate. But the shifted ...

Everything that lived on land that was larger than a metre in size in the Cretaceous was a dinosaur,' says palaeontologist Dr Susie Maidment. 'There were small, furry mammals running around at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fight scene, preserved in a fossil discovered in China, suggests that small mammals preyed on the dinosaurs that ruled Earth during the Cretaceous period more than previously thought ...

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

“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 ...

By the turn of the 21st century, however, scientists began noticing that dates on the various mammalian phylogenies weren't adding up: molecular data suggested that modern mammals originated during ...