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

Using their monochrome coats as camouflage, these mammals blended into the shadows to avoid being eaten by dinosaurs at night ...

Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, ...

Some were the size of a dog. Others were as large as polar bears. A newly-discovered fossil of the ferocious hyaenodont is ...

Some animals have been around since the time of the dinosaurs—and they’re still thriving today! Known as “living fossils,” ...

Zebra stripes? Leopard print? Neither were in vogue among the earliest mammals during the Age of Dinosaurs. Early mammals and their close relatives probably sported dark, drab coats from snout to ...

This is fantastic work,” he adds. The first mammal-like animals emerged alongside dinosaurs in the Mesozoic Era, aptly known as “the Age of Reptiles.” Based on fossilized bone and skeletal ...

From drawing the gorillas being studied by Dian Fossey in Rwanda to artistically fleshing out prehistoric mammals from bone to muscle to life appearance, Matternes has captured everything from ...