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

Ancient mammals that lived in the time of dinosaurs were mostly the same dark-brown colour, according to a new study ...

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

"These extinct early mammals had distinct lifestyles, ranging from ground-dwelling and burrowing to gliding through the ...

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 ...

BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua) -- The early mammals that lived alongside dinosaurs over 150 million years ago likely had dark, dusky brown fur, helping them blend into the night and evade predators.

Their dark, bland coloring helped them blend into the nighttime environment. Shawkey believes that fur color didn't diversify much until about 66 million years ago. After the fall of the dinosaurs ...