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

Have you noticed your Siberian Husky's fur looking a bit different lately? Let's dive into whether this is possible and what ...

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

This uniform fur coloring had evolutionary advantages and allowed mammals to avoid becoming prey to their more colorful neighbors. Thanks to a comparative analysis of fossilized mammals, researchers ...

In the Arctic, temperatures are too cold for these algae. But wild polar bear fur can still change color to yellow, thanks to oils from their prey that stain the fur. Perhaps the most surprising ...