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

The Late Cretaceous period was 100.5-66 million years ago during ... were a variety of different types of mammals. Up until ...

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...

3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and tone of life on Earth. At the start of the period ... the landscape. And mammals sat poised to fill the ...

There were small, furry mammals running around at the feet of the dinosaurs ... It's not clear why some dinosaurs and pterosaurs, such as Quetzalcoatlus, got so large during the Cretaceous Period.

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

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 ...

Learn about the time period that took place ... The huge animals evolved from land mammals that took to the seas. Meanwhile, smaller reptiles that survived the Cretaceous, such as turtles, snakes ...

Tritylodontids were believed to have gone extinct before the Cretaceous Period under the pressure of mammals, their prosperous rivals. However, recent research has established that they survived ...

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 ...