Early mammals were all one color, study suggests
The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...
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Dinosaur tracks, made 140 million years ago, have been found for the first time in South Africa's Western Cape
Dinosaur bones have taught us a great deal about these animals from the "age of dinosaurs," the Mesozoic Era, which stretched ...
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Dark coats may have helped the earliest mammals hide from hungry dinosaurs
During the age of dinosaurs, early mammals probably lacked the stripes and spots of their modern relatives, having uniformly dark, drab coats.
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Prehistoric Mammals' Dark Fur Was Key to Survival
A discovery about the dark fur of early mammals confirms long-held theories about their evolutionary and ecological behavior.
Dinosaur tracks from 140 million years ago found on coastline
Dinosaurs have captured people’s imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by ...
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Mesozoic mammals had uniform dark fur
The early mammals that lived alongside the dinosaurs upwards of 150 million years ago (mya) were likely covered in dark and dusky greyish-brown fur, according to a quantitative reconstruction of ...
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Melanosome patterns in Mesozoic mammals suggest they had dark, uniformly dull fur coloring
An international team of paleontologists, geoscientists and biologists has found via analysis of melanosome patterns in fossilized Mesozoic mammals, that they most likely had dark, uniformly dull ...
125-million-year-old venomous scorpion fossil unearthed in China in shocking discovery
Chinese scientists have found a 125-million-year-old venomous scorpion fossil in northeast China. The discovery, made by ...