But what about the mammals roaming the earth alongside them? In a new study published in Science, an international team of scientists has discovered that early mammals had dark and dull fur, no matter ...

Animals with red or yellow fur had rounder melanosomes, while those with dark brown or black fur exhibited elongated melanosomes. Based on the analysis of today's mammals, the research team ...

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 ...