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 ...

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, ...

For more than a century, paleontologists have treated dinosaurs and mammals as rival success stories that simply took turns ruling the planet. New work on how each group raised its young suggests the ...

The Mesozoic era, traditionally renowned as the age of dinosaurs, also marks a period of remarkable innovation in the evolution of early mammals. Mammaliaforms diversified into a variety of ecological ...

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Postcanine replacement in the gomphodont cynodont Diademodon / James A. Hopson -- Bimodal wear of mammalian teeth / R.G. Every and W.G. Kuhne -- The dentition of Morganucodon / J.R.E. Mills -- The ...

The human aging process causing your sore joints may have been influenced by the dinosaurs, researchers have found. This "longevity bottleneck hypothesis" suggests that the evolutionary pressure that ...

Prologue / Mingzhen Zhou -- Divisions of non-marine Mesozoic of China and the paleoclimatic implications based on paleobotanical data / Ge Sun -- PaleoecologiCal implications of the fishes and plants ...