Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Dark coats may have helped the earliest mammals hide from hungry dinosaurs. The spots and stripes familiar to us today didn't arise until later in mammalian evolution <a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dark-coats-earliest-mammals-dinosaurs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencenews.org/article/dark-c</span><span class="invisible">oats-earliest-mammals-dinosaurs</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Mesozoic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mesozoic</span></a> mammaliaforms illuminate the origins of pelage coloration <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads9734" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc</span><span class="invisible">e.ads9734</span></a></p><p>"Zebra stripes? Leopard print? Neither were in vogue among the earliest <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/mammals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mammals</span></a> during the Age of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dinosaurs</span></a>. Early mammals and their close relatives probably sported dark, drab coats from snout to tail."</p>