Two brand-new species of early mammals from the Jurassic period have been discovered, revealing the secrets of how we got our ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a thorough examination of the pigment-producing cells present in living mammals, ...

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they all had greyish-brown fur. “They were dinosaur food,” says Matthew Shawkey at ...

One of the tiny mammals, Agilodocodon scansorius, was arboreal and had long claws and sharp, gnawing teeth. It is considered the earliest tree-living mammal yet found. The other, Docofossor ...

Long before the asteroid hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, many mammals had already started living on the ground, ...

During the age of dinosaurs, early mammals probably lacked the stripes and spots of their modern relatives, having uniformly dark, drab coats.

First glimpse of the colour of mammals who lived alongside dinosaurs. Plus, what anti-vaccine rhetoric in the US government will mean for the country’s health and, in a world first, a man has ...

Warm, moist, tropical breezes. This was the Jurassic, which took place 199 to 145 million years ago. At the start of the period, the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea continued and accelerated.

Early mammals lived "substantially" longer 150 million years ago than their descendants today, reveals new research. They grew much more slowly and it took them "years" to reach sexual maturity in ...

Researchers working in China have unearthed the fossil remains of two diminutive mammals that speak volumes about faunal diversity during the Jurassic Period. On March 7, researchers will rally in ...

frogspawn, a tadpole or an adult frog a mammal (for example, a mouse, rabbit, squirrel, hedgehog, cat, dog, cow or horse) Any mammals you're likely to spot today will almost certainly be bigger than ...

Stegosaurus, Allosaurus and Diplodocus are among the Jurassic Period’s most famous faces. But how dinosaurs went from a small and unimportant group of reptiles to ruling our planet for millions of ...