The salmiak pattern of white hairs is easiest to see in solid black cats, the study reported, but it can also appear in cats with other fur colors like in brown tabby, tortoiseshell, and blue cats.

Applying the newly developed model suggests that the fur color of the time was predominantly a deep and uniform brown or black. Patterns such as stripes or spots commonly seen in modern mammals ...

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 ...

BEIJING -- The early mammals that lived alongside dinosaurs over 150 million years ago likely had dark, dusky brown fur ... mammals had solid dark fur without patterns. "This dark color may ...