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Fossils reveal what the fur of early mammals looked like
A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...
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Mesozoic mammals had uniform dark fur
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 ...
Phys.org9d
Melanosome patterns in Mesozoic mammals suggest they had dark, uniformly dull fur coloring
The team suggests that after the dinosaurs went extinct, mammals diversified to fill niches they left behind and developed skin and fur colors better suited to a variety of environments.
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Dark fur helped early mammals evade predators: study
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.