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

It is not uncommon for kittens in the same litter to have different color fur. According to Cats Protection, an animal ...

Two-colored, bi-color cats possess two-colored fur, often white and some other simple color such as black, gray, or orange. They may have patterns ranging from a small percentage of white to more ...

In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes how they created a predictive model to analyze melanosome patterns found in fossilized fur samples. Over the past decade ...

Aside from camouflage, dense melanosomes in their fur likely aided heat retention ... from orange tamarins to grey koalas and black-and-white patterns of zebras, according to the researchers.

The inheritance of fur colour in mice is controlled by a single gene. White fur is recessive - a. Grey fur is dominant - A. Two mice that are heterozygous for the fur colour gene mate. Determine ...