But early feathered dinosaur fossils lend clues to how fur may have inevitably descended from primitive feathers. Sinosauropteryx , the first known feathered dinosaur, exhibited mammalian-like hair.

Back in 1995, Richard Edlund, special-effects guru for The Empire Strikes Back, Species, Alien 3 and many of the biggest effects movies ever, held up the Holy Grail for computer generated imagery (… ...

Fur comes in all shapes and types, including as human hair. Its thermoregulation properties can tell us about how our ancestors’ lifestyles changed as they diverged from reptile-like animals ...

This particular early Cretaceous fur ball met its end in a prehistoric swamp that preserved some skin, hair, spines and even organs — parts of an ear, lungs and liver.