Three-dimensional computer models of fossils from a tiny mouse-size creature that lived about 210 million years ago in what is now Greenland clear up a long-standing mammal mystery. The high-tech ...

The mouse on the left is chimeric with dark eyes and patches of black fur, a result of stem cells derived from a choanoflagellate Sox gene.(Gao Ya/Alvin Kin Shing Lee/QMUL via SWNS) By Dean Murray via ...

The mouse on the left is a chimeric with dark eyes and patches of black fur, a result of stem cells derived from a choanoflagellate Sox gene. The wildtype mouse on the right has red eyes and all white ...

A team of paleontologists digs along the banks of the Colville River in northern Alaska. Kevin May/University of Colorado Boulder Researchers discovered a tiny creature, about the size of two nickels, ...

Color has long been a persistent problem in scientists’ efforts to reconstruct the appearances of ancient creatures. Soft tissues like feathers and fur are rarely preserved in the fossil record — and ...

In a massive breakthrough, scientists created a mouse with the use of ancient genetic tools which are older in comparison to animal life. The researchers took a gene from single-celled lifeforms and ...

Some 3 million years ago, a tiny mouse featuring reddish fur on its back and a white belly scurried across the landscape of what is now Germany. We know this thanks to a remarkable new breakthrough in ...

May 23 (UPI) --Redheads are at least 3 million years old. Scientists have discovered red pigment inside the fossilized fur of an ancient mouse specimen found in Germany. The discovery, detailed this ...

Paleontologists working on a steep river bank in Alaska have discovered fossil evidence of the northernmost marsupial known to science. This tiny, opossum-like critter, which the team named Unnuakomys ...

A new species of mammal – a mouse with unusually large ears and eyes – has been discovered on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. It is the first new mammal species to be found in Europe in over a ...