“When I was growing up, all of the books on fossils said that we would never know the color of extinct species,” Steve Brusatte, ... (and the later true mammals) were fairly small.

Natural history museums teach us about our world, but they aren’t telling us the whole story, writes curator Jack Ashby in ...

The book also introduces readers to prehistoric mustelids, a family of carnivores that includes weasels, badgers and ...

A 125-million-year-old fossil from the early Cretaceous shows the skeletons of a smaller mammal biting a larger horned dinosaur, suggesting a much more complex ancient food web.

In “Prehistoric World: Over 1,200 Incredible Mammals and Discoveries from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic,” readers will learn about the warm-blooded animals that rose to prominence after the ...