Melanosome patterns in Mesozoic mammals suggest they had dark, uniformly dull fur coloring

An international team of paleontologists, geoscientists and biologists has found via analysis of melanosome patterns in fossilized Mesozoic mammals, that they most likely had dark, uniformly dull fur coloring. 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.