A new type of cat coat color has officially been discovered. Named salmiak, or ‘salty liquorice,’ the cats have hair strands ...

Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, grey-brown fur for camouflage.

A discovery about the dark fur of early mammals confirms long-held theories about their evolutionary and ecological behavior.

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...