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 ...
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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Ancient mammals had mostly dark brown coats during the dinosaur era, new study reveals
The study, published in the journal Science, used scientific techniques that have similarly shown the colouring of various dinosaurs and ancient birds from their fossils. Advances in dinosaur ...
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How paleontologists are uncovering dinosaur behavior
After all, dinosaur fossils are rare enough as it is ... But right now it can only tell us so much—it just tells us the color of the individual animal at the time of its death.
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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.