In the Mesozoic, there were swimming mammals, gliding mammals, even predatory mammals that ate small dinosaurs.
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The weird thing is that it's inconsistent: it's in mammals, but not all mammals.
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As Niedźwiedzki explained, they're extinct non-mammalian therapsids—a group of synapsids that includes mammals and their ancestors (synapsids are sometimes referred to as proto-mammals or stem mammals).
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About 100,7003 years after the K-Pg event, mammals bounced back, with raccoon-size mammals reappearing.
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All mammals have a diving reflex, but marine mammals like seals have a particularly strong one.
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But there are a lot of differences between us and other mammals: Other mammals often have litters.
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Mammals already had evolved into a staggering range of forms, fossil evidence shows, foreshadowing the diversity of mammals today.
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Of those, some diverged from the common ancestors of living mammals, but more primitive mammals split off even earlier.
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If haramiyids are mammals, then the group pushes back the birth of mammals to about 220 million years ago.
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It's game over, I mean, for human beings, or big mammals, and we're big mammals as Yvon likes to say.
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Pacific islands are notoriously low on mammals, and those mammals that do live there tend to be small and unobtrusive.
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Mammals are particularly susceptible to this kind of diversity loss, according to the study, because many large mammals have few close relatives.
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Marine mammals usually strand due to injury or illness Kerr said marine mammals often become stranded if they are injured or sick.
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As anyone who has ever watched a video of a platypus or echidna puggle knows, Mesozoic mammals were the most adorable mammals.
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But specialized milk-like secretions are something erroneously attributed to solely mammals—other non-mammals and even invertebrates produce milk-like secretions, too.
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Some mammals, like bats, mole rats, and mice, appear to have this sense, but the extent of this capacity among other mammals is largely unknown.
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The first mammals evolved roughly 210 million years ago, according to Reuters, and they were incredibly diverse: ancient mammals were tree climbers, swimmers, burrowers, and gliders.
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Oxytocin is a real hormone, a neuropeptide, that has been shown to influence behavior across the animal kingdom, particularly in mammals, and particularly in social mammals.
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Most mammals—elephants and sea mammals like dugongs and whales aside—have testicles that are located in a scrotal pouch away from the heat of the body.
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The slab offers unique insights into the behavior of dinosaurs and early mammals; possibly some of the dinosaurs were looking to make a meal of the mammals.
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For example, he said, many mammals lack REM sleep completely, and some mammals sleep 20 hours a day whereas others just need 6 to 8 hours or less.
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"This systematic underprotection of marine mammals cannot be consistent with the requirement that mitigation measures result in the 'least practicable adverse impact' on marine mammals," the court said.
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When you look at mammals specifically, humans make up 36 percent of all the mammals on the planet, with just 4 percent being wild animals like lions and bears.
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From a strict animal rights perspective, however, the fact that mammals like cows and pigs generate more compassion than non-mammals tells us nothing about whether they deserve more compassion.
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Human beings, with phylocentric arrogance, often refer to the subsequent period, extending to the present day, as the "Age of Mammals"—and it is true that mammals have done well in it.
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In recent work, we found that bats carry more zoonotic viruses than other mammals and that a large number of the "missing zoonoses" carried by these mammals may be in South America.
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In that time, I have come to see that certain animals, mostly mammals — and mostly mammals on display to the public — take priority over other animals, particularly over snakes and other reptiles.
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The ancestors of modern mammals are thought to have laid the sort of porous, parchment-shelled eggs seen today among lizards, snakes and a couple of weird, monotreme mammals like the platypus.
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All efforts to do the same in mammals had failed.
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Like mammals, frogs have been around for a long time.
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Bats, the only flying mammals, use echolocation to move around.
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Neither of the mammals involved was injured in the incident.
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The platypus is one of few mammals that lays eggs.
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The platypus is one of five mammals that lay eggs.
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Some 2000 million years ago, mammals caught their lucky break.
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Some suggest for insulation, rather like the hair of mammals.
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Alpine mammals like pikas are being forced further up slope.
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According to NPR, they're also the world's most trafficked mammals.
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That left the world open for the rise of mammals.
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Unable to surface for air, the mammals die of asphyxiation.
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Mammals give birth to babies, reptiles pop out eggs, right?
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These shy creatures are among the world's most endangered mammals.
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Humans, other mammals, and birds all share a small space.
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This led him to try the same thing with mammals.
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Usually, the documentary cuts away from mammals after they're felled.
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Bats are the only flying mammals and they're incredibly diverse.
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They are not mammals, and people like to eat them.
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As mammals interacted in new ways, the PDV virus spread.
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But almost all mammals — ourselves included — have only one copy.
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These mammals have several copies of LIF; elephants have ten.
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The mechanisms in other mammals, including humans, may be similar.
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The rise of marine mammals may have doomed giant penguins.
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By comparison, all living mammals comprise fewer than 6,400 species.
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The plasma from land mammals quickly broke down the chemicals.
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So why did marine mammals lose such an important gene?
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Trilobites When the dinosaurs are away, the mammals will play.
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But cetaceans do not sleep the way most mammals do.
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Birds, reptiles and mammals, except bats, are among those affected.
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These mammals did not lurk in the shadows of dinosaurs.
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The only mammals were a couple of species of bat.
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The scurrying of small mammals offers a complex, scratchboard choreography.
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Often, these ignored species are reptiles, birds, and small mammals.
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They're meant to be for knocking down mammals, after all.
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New Zealand is trying to kill millions of invasive mammals.
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As for the difference between worms and mammals, the authors suggest that, while rigor mortis happens a few hours after the brain and heart stop working in mammals, these worms don't have vascular systems.
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Once mammals achieved their "modern" body forms (dogs, cats, elephants, bats, whales, etc.) during the middle of the Cenozoic (the "age of mammals") about 30 million years ago, those overall forms remained pretty stable.
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This also meant that testicondy evolved after afrotherians split from other placental mammals, about 100 million years ago, which suggests the common ancestor of all mammals did indeed lower their testes, Dr. Hiller said.
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People who boost placenta eating often note that most mammals (with the exception of camels and aquatic mammals) eat their placentas after birth, and say that this "natural" practice must be good for humans too.
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It's usually hard for mammals to get to places like Australia.
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Dramatic differences between breeds within a species is unusual for mammals.
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This notion explains why some mammals shed blood and others don't.
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Until now, only mammals and birds were known to experience these.
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Yet it was the other mammals that made their jaws drop.
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Mammals are not especially diverse when it comes to genome size.
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There are examples of successful adaptation: elsewhere, mammals shrunk in size.
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The hall also displays fossils such as mammals and marine reptiles.
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These highly trained marine mammals have been deployed across the world.
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Youthful traits appearing in adult mammals is what's known as neoteny.
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His country's elephants and other endangered mammals are worth more alive.
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The evolution of ovulation Certain species of mammals are reflex ovulators.
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Critically endangered Sumatran orangutans and other mammals are all accounted for.
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Most mammals are dichromats—they have only two photoreceptors for color.
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Spiders eating small mammals isn't a common event, but it happens.
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Wild mammals are down to a measly 210% of the total.
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The tunnel bugs, they confirmed, preferred feeding on mammals over birds.
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For mammals, by contrast, that efficiency is usually around 20 percent.
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Before there were birds, mammals and dinosaurs, horseshoe crabs were here.
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It is a carnivore, feeding on invertebrates, lizards and small mammals.
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That sonar harms marine mammals like whales, dolphins, seals, and walruses.
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Humans are some of the only mammals who can see red.
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" But she brought up an interesting point: "Human women are mammals.
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There, samples of mosquitoes, birds, bats and other mammals were analyzed.
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Females feed on humans and other mammals, usually in the evening.
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The last of the sea mammals left Panama City on Sunday.
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They are also both mammals, which helps them relate to us.
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This arrangement has worked well for mammals that rarely encounter males.
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Mammals category finalist: 'Climbing to the sweet' by José Juan Hernández
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I had anxiety dreams about tampons the size of large mammals.
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You might have a locality that's rich in Ice Age mammals.
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Their real concern is why the mammals aren't going there anymore.
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All marine mammals remain at risk in an increasingly industrialized world.
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Another issue is people trying to get selfies with marine mammals.
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Beyond that, he didn't know if other mammals had one too.
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Marine mammals may be slowly accumulating the pesticides in their bodies.
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It has served these urban mammals well for over a century.
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Cattle, pets, small mammals, birds and humans are all potential hosts.
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And, he said, it is — for mammals, birds, plants and butterflies.
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I carried Peterson's field guides to identify the birds and mammals.
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Humans have a staggering range of relationships, compared with other mammals.
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The new Disney film "Zootopia" is a carnival of the mammals.
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They are some of the least understood mammals on the planet.
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They see the waters rising and worry about sea mammals disappearing.
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Science: Milk is supposed to be a distinguishing characteristic of mammals.
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Blastocysts are structures formed in the very early development of mammals.
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"It grew into this dogma that only mammals chew," he continued.
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With this kind of data it's difficult to infer behaviors of mammals tens of millions of years ago, because most species living tens of millions of years ago simply don't have living representatives... I think their study is a strong contribution to our understanding of early mammal evolution, but I recommend caution when inferring traits of ancient mammals from modern mammals alone.
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This is especially important because platypuses are an evolutionary throwback to the dawn of mammals, so understanding how they sleep is relevant to finding out the evolution of sleep in mammals, reptiles, and perhaps even dinosaurs.
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Compared to mammals that had low human disturbance and split their time between day and night 50:50, highly disturbed mammals became on average 1.36 times more nocturnal—that equates to a 32:68 split, Gaynor said.
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Vantage point surveying – with observers standing on cliff tops – is used to analyse how many marine mammals are in the area, while sonar is used to gain an understanding of how marine mammals move around the turbine.
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Changes in insulin signaling can cause diabetes in humans and other mammals.
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Less lethal, but still damaging, are effects to the mammals' social structure.
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They diverge on whether sonar-testing waters actually contain the affected mammals.
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Airplane collisions with birds and other mammals are a serious safety problem.
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The global biomass of wild mammals has declined by 82% since prehistory.
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Perhaps brain size isn't a useful measurement when comparing birds and mammals.
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How will the giant mammals respond to plush toys and strange costumes?
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In fact, a large gluteus medius is pretty standard for most mammals.
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Whereas rat-size mammals survived the extinction event, raccoon-size ones perished.
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And it just so happens that range is best heard by mammals.
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The 'Hall of Small Mammals' author favors neat rows and neat beards.
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Penis bones are diverse in shape and size across many different mammals.
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Image: Andrew Gillis/University of CambridgeThat's how it works in mammals, anyway.
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We assume pterosaurs were similar to birds and mammals in this respect.
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But not all appear to be pleased with the furry marine mammals.
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Airplane collisions with birds and other mammals are a serious safety problem.
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There are over 33,000 known species, more than mammals and birds combined.
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"This type of metabolism is really unheard of among mammals," he said.
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It's part of being a mammal, because we are still emotional mammals.
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Most studies of sperm heating have been in other mammals, Levine says.
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Primitive mammals appeared during the Triassic Period roughly 210 million years ago.
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Survival among social mammals depends on having robust bonds within the pack.
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Scientists say about 20 percent of all mammals on earth are bats.
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The air-breathing marine mammals become entangled in the fine-mesh nets.
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Only in mammals that evolved ovulatory cycles did the clitoris move away.
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Oxpeckers get food, and in return, the mammals are protected from pests.
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Marine mammals, it seems, also use these channels to bop between oceans.
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To donate to Marine Mammals of Maine via GoFundMe Charity, click here
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Most mammals produce alpha-gal; it's a component of their cell membranes.
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They didn't think an allergy to meat from mammals was very likely.
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These are lovable mammals with Disney faces — unless poisoned by lethal toxins.
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They are killed and eaten by snakes and birds and bigger mammals.
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In mammals, females have two X chromosomes while males only have one.
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How did these mosquito-snacking mammals become associated with spooky season, anyway?
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The large mammals must be located, moved around, and encouraged to mate.
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Some researchers believe the animals bridged the transition between reptiles and mammals.
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They were not the only mammals to do so, it turns out.
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Some tree-dwelling mammals only eat food from certain species, for example.
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Bats harbor a significantly higher proportion of zoonotic viruses than other mammals.
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They began as land-dwelling, hoofed mammals some 50 million years ago.
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"In some ways marine mammals are built just like us," she said.
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It became a planet of mammals rather than a planet of dinosaurs.
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Oxytocin, often called the love hormone, helps mammals bond with one another.
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The other, Mustelinae, includes badgers, weasels, and ferrets, among other similar mammals.
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The same process is very unlikely to happen in mammals, he said.
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Early studies suggested that mammals used much simpler brain circuits for communicating.
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That's why gynandromorphism is so rarely seen in mammals, Dr. Hooper said.
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Is it that birds aren't cuddly and furry the way mammals are?
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""It's very difficult to relate behaviour changes in mammals that lived so long ago to ecological conditions at the time, so we can't say that the dinosaurs dying out caused mammals to start being active in the daytime.
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Despite the fact that humans have contributed to the extinction of an estimated 177 species of large mammals—almost all of which were done in by Stone Age hunters—there are still vast numbers of large mammals wandering around.
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The researchers mapped the ranges of 27,600 birds, amphibians, mammals and reptiles — half of all known vertebrate species on Earth —on a 6,000-mile scale and analyzed the geographic ranges of 177 mammals between the years 1900 and 2015.
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But some people just can't keep their faces away from the prickly mammals.
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But fish and marine mammals evolved to coexist with those sounds, scientists note.
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So, Broadly decided to investigate this discrepancy; we are all mammals, after all.
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They may have provided insulation and other benefits, as hair does for mammals.
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Cannibalism naturally occurs in lots of species of insects, fish, and even mammals.
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This reality is typically explained by a possible competitive advantage in placental mammals.
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Prions affect a variety of mammals besides humans, including sheep, cats, and cows.
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Press play, and you can help the cute scaly mammals fall in love.
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Brown snakes are typically known to eat frogs, other reptiles, birds and mammals.
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All mammals seem to have seven cervical vertebrae except for sloths and manatees.
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At the time, the island featured no native land mammals or surface water.
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In humans and primates, the pontine nuclei are large compared to other mammals.
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This idea, that our ancestors successfully hunted massive mammals, however, isn't too surprising.
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Why do women, unlike most female mammals, stop reproducing decades before they die?
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These mammals, like the Eoconodon, could reach the size of a large dog.
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Past efforts in Mexico to save threatened marine mammals have seen mixed results.
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But the largest of them will target frogs, snakes, hummingbirds and small mammals.
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The imprints of nocturnal adaptations continue to persist in most living mammals today.
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Both Asiatic and African cheetahs are the fastest land mammals in the world.
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However, their organization is significantly different from that of other fish and mammals.
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COMPARED WITH mammals, living members of the crocodile clan have exceptionally boring dentition.
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Keeping this foremost in mind, Pavlicev and Wagner then looked at other mammals.
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PCBs lodge in fat and build up in the blubber of marine mammals.
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Everyone's favorite massive mammals of the ocean need your help — and counting skills.
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However, the story of Tilikum has scared many away from the large mammals.
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That certainly makes it the best guess that other mammals are dreaming, too.
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A significant number of mammals (more than 40%) lost 80% of their range.
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Triassic Period (252 - 200 million years ago): Thrinaxodon, a precursor to the mammals.
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The animal is also one of the strangest-looking mammals on the planet.
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But it also reveals a stranger evolutionary history of mammals on the island.
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This includes birds, butterflies, dragonflies, bees, grasshoppers, spiders and large and small mammals.
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Specifically, long "rails" of extra fatty insulation the mammals store on their sides.
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To survive, ticks must eat the blood of mammals, birds, reptiles or amphibians.
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Usain Bolt will run faster than any other human and most other mammals.
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Very rich, like many other Arctic mammals, the fat content is very high.
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The forest floor contains rodents and other mammals, the trees birds and honey.
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In female mammals, mam-ma-ry glands are where the milk comes from.
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They would be eating mammals like raccoons, waterbirds, turtles, and deer on occasion.
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Originally found in plants, they had also been identified among insects and mammals.
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In the future Instagram will be used as a way of understanding mammals.
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But he also said that flooding was likely to have drowned the mammals.
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The picture also won the top prize in the contest's mammals "Behavior" category.
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Is a big one, the biggest of mammals that walk in the field.
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They are not the only marine mammals suffering through the hot Alaska summer.
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So, as the sun goes down, let's honour Diesel's ultimate contribution to mammals.
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But the mounting studies suggest there's a fundamental baseline, at least among mammals.
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Check out the Marine Mammals of Maine website and see how to help.
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Plastic is affecting everything from zooplankton and fish to marine mammals and seabirds.
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"Large mammals have slow reproductive rates," Benítez-López told Motherboard in an email.
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Potentially. Should you do it just because rich women and other mammals do?
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Some killer whales eat smaller mammals, including seals, while others eat only fish.
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Most warm-blooded animals, like mammals and birds, have periods of REM sleep.
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Marine mammals can also hold contaminants such as toxins from harmful algal blooms.
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Maybe you feel safer with other large mammals such as dogs and horses.
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In that moment, the only thing that mattered was that we were mammals.
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They are tiny mouselike mammals with gray fur, long tails, and pointy snouts.
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"Problems for mammals (including humans) start way below 5% CO2," Pfanz told CNN.
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The middle layer, the "limbic system," supposedly contained emotion circuitry inherited from mammals.
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This may seem obvious, but marine mammals aren't supposed to get tired swimming.
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Cyrodrakon was carnivorous, feasting on a diet of mammals, lizards and baby dinosaurs.
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Birds and mammals at Chernobyl have cataracts in their eyes and smaller brains.
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Harming or injuring marine mammals is forbidden under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
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But yes, we do see loss of enamel in older mammals, including humans.
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Cuvier's beaked whales are among the most mysterious and adept mammals on Earth.
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Brains of several dozen species of mammals and birds stored individually in antifreeze.
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We know that mutations in mammals arise randomly and at a consistent rate.
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However, most healthy mammals continuous defecate for somewhere between five and 19 seconds.
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Currently 40% of amphibians, 33% of coral and a third of all marine mammals are threatened with extinction, while 10% of insects and 9% of all domesticated breeds of mammals used for food and agriculture had gone extinct by 2016.
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In fact, he edited an entire tome on the subject, the Handbook of Milk of Non‑Bovine Mammals—a whopping 470 pages on the milks of ten non-bovine mammals: goats, sheep, buffaloes, mares, camels, yaks, reindeer, sows, llamas, and humans.
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The incredible creature, named Lisowicia bojani, was a dicynodont—a distant cousin of mammals.
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As far as mammals go, we humans are pretty good at using our voices.
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In fact, researchers find that larger, longer-lived mammals have fewer cases of cancer.
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Fortunately it isn't dangerous, but can bite, and mainly preys on birds and mammals.
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Bats are the true heroes around here—the only mammals to master powered flight.
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They begin by milking snakes for their venom and injecting a small amount mammals.
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The list includes koalas and platypuses, plus some birds, mammals, reptiles, frogs, and fish.
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Within 100,000 years of the extinction event, mammals reached about 163 pounds (6 kg).
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The very well-preserved fossils provide important clues about how diverse prehistoric mammals were.
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Outside the tent flying insects big as mammals, incessant rain, and cracks of lightning.
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Hi, I'm DNLee I study behavior & natural history of small mammals across urban gradients.
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Lyson specializes in studying reptiles, but many of their finds were fossils of mammals.
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The alpha-gal molecule is found in all mammals except primates, which includes humans.
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Only between 0.05 percent and 10 percent belonged to mammals — either animals or humans.
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The peregrine falcon is in fact the fastest animal; cheetahs are the fastest mammals.
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A similar process happened to mammals, and as a recent study pointed out, amphibians.
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At long last, the world's tallest land mammals are getting the respect they deserve.
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She's truly a queen among mammals, and a role model to zoo babes everywhere.
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She taught me how to do small mammals: foxes, bobcats, groundhogs, coyotes, and squirrels.
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That may be because Eurasia was richer in large mammals that could be domesticated.
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Some marine mammals and birds exhibit a more pronounced form of this "unihemispheric" sleep.
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"We try to make it friendly for the birds and the mammals," Lorenzo says.
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And one of the largest carnivorous mammals to ever walk the Earth was discovered.
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Until now, the gentle African mammals were all classified under the Giraffa camelopardalis species.
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How, then, could a vegan diet wipe out an entire species of large mammals?
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Most mammals have alpha-gal in their muscles, but not humans and other primates.
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The asteroid cleared the playing field and gave mammals the chance to take over.
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About 220% of birds and a third of mammals are at high extinction risk.
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Consider that humans and our livestock now constitute 2200% of all mammals on Earth.
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We have wiped more than 2000% of mammals off the face of the Earth.
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Dugongs are medium-sized marine mammals, and largely dependent on seagrass communities for survival.
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Physical contact is fundamental need, not just for the Boss, but for all mammals.
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Some Australian mammals are suffering because they don't conform to society's unrealistic beauty standards.
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So traditionally, all the "smart" animals have been mammals: apes, monkeys, dolphins, even pigs.
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Dinosaurs are great, but mammals stole the show on several occasions this year, too.
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It's the first food of all mammals, intimately connected to childhood, motherhood, and nursing.
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In marine mammals, one symptom of the disease can manifest itself in erratic swimming.
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Then press play on the Beef's ode to flying mammals/rabies and drift away.
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Almost all mammals exhibit viviparity, yet only a few insects also hold this title.
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For a moment, they become like us, mammals who breathe, with arms and legs.
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They don't simply grow from egg to adult the way mammals or reptiles do.
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European carp spread herpes when they mate, but not quite the way mammals do.
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These gentle giants evolved from elephant-like land mammals almost 50 million years ago.
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What if they have our intelligence, but the less-empathetic drives of other mammals?
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The plan aims partly to reduce noise that could harm marine mammals, chiefly whales.
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A lightbulb moment from scientists could result in thousands of vulnerable marine mammals saved.
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Research into new Assisted Reproductive Techniques for large mammals is underway due to him.
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The process is similar to but different from hibernation, which generally refers to mammals.
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And the potential impact on birds, fisheries and marine mammals will be closely scrutinized.
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Almost all mammals experience R.E.M. sleep, but even today researchers debate why it exists.
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According to archaeologists, Inupiat have hunted marine mammals here for more than 2,500 years.
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"We want to keep the priority on the health of the mammals," he said.
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But what helped transform them into marine mammals is a tale riddled with holes.
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All mammals possess the "mammalian diving reflex," triggered by cold water hitting the face.
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More recently, the DNA of marine mammals has revealed more details about their adaptations.
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Most mammals took between 10 and 30 seconds, with an average of 21 seconds.
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A separate tally of mammals, to be published soon, includes more than 21,2775 specimens.
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Here's a mind-boggling fact: Almost all mammals fart, yet the sloth does not.
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Veterinary experts generally do not recommend nitrogen or other inert gases for euthanizing mammals.
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For instance, all male mammals engage in rough-and-tumble play, Ms. Eliot said.
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Catalina's owner, the chewing-gum industrialist William L. Wrigley Jr., liked the hulking mammals.
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"People have gotten ill and died from botulism after eating marine mammals," he said.
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"People are beginning to understand that Neanderthals didn't just hunt large mammals," Villa said.
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Placental mammals all develop inside a uterus, drawing nutrients and oxygen from their mothers.
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As a result, they had only some of the traits that define mammals today.
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But if they are not, mammals date to only about 185 million years ago.
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They say it's the first time such behavior has been seen outside of mammals.
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It was the first time that mammals had proved able to regenerate hair cells.
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Orcas are among only a small number of mammals known to go through menopause.
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So why are we, and many other mammals, stuck with such a risky arrangement?
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Hone said the environment was Mediterranean-esque, supporting birds, lizards, turtles and small mammals.
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"As bonding mammals built for connection, this makes our nervous systems hum," she said.
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As the most abundant protein in mammals, collagen makes up all human connective tissue.
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The timing would suggest that mammals had been "stuck" in a nocturnal mode of existence during the reign of the dinosaurs, which ended some 66 million years ago, and that the sudden disappearance of dinos allowed mammals to assert themselves during the day.
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Some think they could be mammals, but recent study of the teeth from another member of this group of animals, called the haramiyids, cast doubt on whether they are truly evolutionary ancestors of mammals or a branch off of the evolutionary tree.
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"Early mammals that were able to have more rods flourished in this new nighttime niche, and populated the diversity of mammals we know today," the study's co-author Ted Allison, an associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Alberta, told me.
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In the case of mammals, evolution has driven mammals toward greater intelligence by way of consciousness, but in the case of computers, they might be progressing along a parallel and very different route to intelligence that just doesn't involve consciousness at all.
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The act, enacted in 1972, prohibits the harassment, hunting, capturing, or killing of marine mammals.
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Mammals' cone types dropped to two—a nadir from which we are still clambering back.
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Whales are descended from terrestrial mammals, who retained their teeth after adapting an aquatic lifestyle.
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Its fossil treasures include those of ancient species that gave rise to today's living mammals.
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Perhaps there's more evidence to support the hypothesis in other groups of animals, like mammals.
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Watch the video above to find out how much these tall mammals munch on everyday.
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Our ancestors, the early mammals, could have posed a big threat to dinos as well.
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It's still unclear whether orcas and other marine mammals would be part of that expansion.
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And bustling ports bring a stream of cargo ships, the mortal enemies of marine mammals.
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Their hearing is quite sensitive, allowing them to expertly hunt small mammals in the grass.
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But, now Bell's using her obsession with the slow-moving mammals for a good cause.
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By 700,000 years after the asteroid, some mammals weighed more than 110 pounds (50 kg).
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She may not have been referring only to the furry mammals that roam the Tetons.
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For many viewers, the name "Shamu" became synonymous with cruelty against the intelligent marine mammals.
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Like countless dolphins before them, these marine mammals likely became accidentally entangled in fishing nets.
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Even in "hotspots" with more radiation, mammals haven't been hit with any observable population declines.
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When she did, one of the massive mammals swam right between her and her friend.
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Scientists have only just begun to discover what roles these mammals play in our ecosystem.
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Previous research has characterized the luciferin-luciferase combination in bioluminescent insects, bacteria, and marine mammals.
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But other mammals that mate in water, like sea otters, don't have these vaginal folds.
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As far as we know, 100% of nonhuman mammals also lose this ability after weaning.
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Information from 754 different mammalian species was collected, representing 14 percent of all known mammals.
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Until now, however, the technique has been used mostly on the molars of living mammals.
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The mammals known as human beings like to imagine themselves the lords of the planet.
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These prolific flying mammals are carriers of several problematic diseases, including Ebola, Marburg, and Henipa.
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But unlike other mammals, humans live in complex societies, with rules about behaviour and dress.
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Marsupials, unlike placental mammals, have to seek shelter in their mother's pouches soon after birth.
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The mammals also miniaturized over generations, as leaves became less nutritious in the carbonaceous air.
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Researchers have also had more success curing it in other mammals, including dogs and sheep.
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For about 30,000 years, the heat stress caused mammals and insects to shrink in size.
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Cuvier's beaked whales have more myoglobin than most diving mammals and far more than humans.
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The pangolin, a scaly anteater, is one of the most trafficked mammals in the world.
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A parliamentary inquiry and a scientific report on mammals called for governments to step in.
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Smith said that despite very different facial structures, some expressions are shared among social mammals.
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More than 85 percent of Australia's large mammals, birds and reptiles disappeared after people arrived.
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The soaring carrion-eaters have been feasting on the corpses of the unfortunate marine mammals.
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Remoolians are thought to be small aliens that can only shape shift into small mammals.
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Pandas are one of the few mammals that don't have coloring that matches their environment.
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Moscow's Utrish Dolphinarium was the only bidder and pledged to supply the mammals by Aug.
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Dozens of species of sea birds, whales and other sea mammals can't live without them.
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While in Florida, however, the roughly two dozen mammals didn't run operations or conduct training.
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The governors, however, claim the tests would do serious harm to marine mammals and fisheries.
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You can often see the humped mammals ambling about, led by men in traditional dress.
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But eventually some mammals, including primates like us, started spending their lives in social groups.
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Their bodies create opioids to fight pain, which also happens in humans and other mammals.
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On the platform, the researchers found, the fur seals slept much as land mammals do.
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Whales, for example, have the specialized kidneys but need far less water than land mammals.
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Another industry was whaling, despite the city's location far from where the mammals actually swim.
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In mammals and birds living today, pheomelanin is closely associated with particular zinc-sulfur compounds.
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They don't seem to feel pain, and, unlike other mammals, they almost never get cancer.
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Where would these giant mammals live in a modern world, save perhaps the Siberian tundra?
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Charles Darwin was the first to recognize that marine mammals evolved from ancestors on land.
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After that asteroid slammed into Earth 65 million years ago, the mammals rose to power.
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Basics Humans, mice, narwhals — most mammals rely on ancient genes to produce teeth and tusks.
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National ___ Humans, mice, narwhals — most mammals rely on ancient genes to produce teeth and tusks.
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When dinosaurs ruled Earth, a team of paleontologists now believe, mammals were learning to fly.
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The rules will address the "humane handling, care, treatment, and transportation" of these marine mammals.
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SARS jumped from bats to weasel-like mammals called masked palm civets, then to humans.
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Human infants, like all mammals, depend on milk for sustenance at the beginning of life.
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Most of the zoo's mammals are autopsied, and these procedures are occasionally shown to visitors.
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They are home to at least 180 species of birds and 50 species of mammals.
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Chatfield State Park in suburban Littleton is also rich in birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians.
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A. Many immature mammals practice hunting and fighting skills in preparation for the real thing.
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But when we get closer to ourselves in mammals like rats, it gets more debatable.
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Many mammals have penile bones, called baculum, including some primates, dogs, cats, bats, and rodents.
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"It's very difficult to relate behaviour changes in mammals that lived so long ago to ecological conditions at the time, so we can't say that the dinosaurs dying out caused mammals to start being active in the daytime," said study co-author Kate Jones.
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What's new: Scientists had observed invertebrates (octopi, insects) and vertebrates (fishes, amphibians, birds, mammals) sleeping but the physiological signatures of sleep, like rapid eye movements, had only been observed in mammals, birds and reptiles, study co-author Philippe Mourrain of Stanford University tells Axios.
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Overall, the muroids are a "group of mammals that, relative to their age, is the most successful from an evolutionary standpoint: They have the greatest amount of diversification going on," Steppan said, adding that this is the reason they are studied more than other mammals.
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At the heart of the question is whether the dinosaurs held back the diversification of mammals.
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All the mammals his team has looked at with an inactive X chromosome had these sequences.
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Rabies is the obvious one, so staying away from surly mammals is a good general rule.
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This would be good to know because the first walkers eventually evolved into reptiles and mammals.
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They're one of just a handful of mammals with venom glands that deliver a powerful toxin.
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While most newborn mammals are pretty inept, human babies are especially dependent on others to survive.
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But while we have you, can we clear up one thing: Coconuts are definitely not mammals.
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And in fact, the patterns observed resembled those seen in mammals and birds exposed to music.
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Studies have long suggested that certain mammals may recognize and understand death on near-human levels.
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There are a few other species of mammals that have what we might term "butt cheeks".
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Of all mammals exposed to droughts and tropical cyclones, primates have faced the bulk of them.
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In short order, geologically speaking, the Earth's climate will become inhospitable to large mammals like us.
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Today, scientists say nearly a quarter of all mammals and coniferous trees are threatened with extinction.
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They'll need it — aging studies are notoriously time consuming and expensive, especially ones that involve mammals.
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It's not just a neat trick common to both mammals and birds—it also burns calories.
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Marsupials don't have placenta like most mammals, and marsupial babies only gestate for about a month.
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But of those that did, 60% of the birds and 52% of the mammals were male.
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They are protected marine mammals under U.S. and international law, though import permits are sometimes granted.
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The "proof" they offer — that human beings are mammals — is as ridiculous as it is irrelevant.
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We simply can't see what they're doing, even when then the massive mammals surface for air.
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One remaining question, he added, is whether climate drove the changes in the plants and mammals.
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Collectors are more attracted to large mammals with impressive male features such as horns and antlers.
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Now, Deline-Ray and her team make nests for small and medium mammals, birds and bats.
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The result is a landscape of plains, wetlands and forest roamed by thousands of hoofed mammals.
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So far, the only evidence scientists have of spread beyond hoofed mammals, like deer, is indirect.
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Beavers aren't typically known as thrifty mammals, but times have been hard across all species lately.
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And when hostilities cease and people's lives return to normal, so do those of other mammals.
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Insects are also crucial to the diets of many birds, fish, and mammals that humans eat.
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The move comes after international condemnation of the "whale jail," where the mammals were being held.
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Conservationists made the difficult decision to euthanize the remaining marine mammals because of their failing health.
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Theory of mind emerges from a much earlier mind-reading instinct that's common to most mammals.
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We clearly don't rely on smell in the same way that other mammals do, said Doty.
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But the animal does have vertebrae with strong similarities to those of semiaquatic mammals like otters.
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Using high-speed videography, the researchers demonstrated that stingrays actually chew their food similar to mammals.
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In fact, the limbic system is the part of the brain that distinguishes mammals from reptiles.
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What they found: The mammals studied have lost 30% of their range in the past century.
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These highly intelligent and emotional mammals lack sufficient stimulus, resulting in depression, listlessness, irritability, and anxiety.
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The orcas are distinct from other killer whales because they eat salmon rather than marine mammals.
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The next shortest sleepers among mammals may be domestic horses, which get under three hours daily.
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Although it's common for humans to experience heart attacks, the same event is rare in mammals.
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The Alternate Cenozoic dinosaurs would face the same challenges that Real World Cenozoic large mammals faced.
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Vampire bats are the only mammals that feed exclusively on blood, often from cows and horses.
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Called superfetation, the phenomenon is known to occur in some mammals such as badgers and mink.
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More science is needed on the topic of dental pathology in captive mammals at zoological facilities.
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Back in the 1970s, officials in Florida counted just a few hundred of these aquatic mammals.
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Then came the "save the whales" campaign, as environmentalists rallied to save these big, charismatic mammals.
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Unlike most other mammals, spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) live in matriarchal societies led by alpha females.
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The overgrown bushes rustle with the movement that suggests possums or nocturnal mammals of some kind.
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The mammals have been observed living socially complex lives, largely made possible by their advanced brains.
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"It's good for mammals to eat the placenta and we evolved for that purpose," she said.
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The pond was probably frequented by mastodons and other extinct mammals, like ancient bison and rhinoceroses.
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For the next 10 months, Aros says, he received constant telepathic communication from the aquatic mammals.
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The orderly rows of trees provide scant refuge for mammals trying to avoid predators and hunters.
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Sea turtles, birds and marine mammals are choking on plastic trash or getting entangled in it.
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These gentle giants are actually mammals and typically surface every three to five minutes for air.
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The new techniques turned humans into semiaquatic mammals (think sea otters) with significant drops in time.
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It's been doing this for a lot longer than we or even mammals have been around.
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Fast forward to the present, and the honeymoon in the sun may be over for mammals.
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Andreas Mershin believes we don't have to understand how mammals smell to build an artificial nose.
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But these are all vertebrate mammals, and their reasoning, to different degrees, often mirrors our own.
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There's actually a lot of empirical evidence that most mammals, at least, are capable of empathy.
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But new research suggests the mammals' demise isn't entirely on our distant ancestors' shoulders after all.
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Marine mammals, sea turtles and other marine life have paid a hefty price during the bloom.
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In flower or not, the plants host a perpetual orbit of insects, birds and small mammals.
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CNN: How have humans negatively affected the health and habitat of seals and other marine mammals?
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The goal is providing them the information, so they know how best to respect marine mammals.
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Mining the Grinnell Survey and Resurvey data on both birds and mammals will continue for years.
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The group ultimately collected more than 11,000 specimens, many of them bugs, plants and small mammals.
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The "tadpole" shape we most associate with sperm is not at all common outside of mammals.
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I would suspect the underlying determinants are ecological determinants that have favored populations of small mammals.
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The team's findings may not map perfectly to our hair or that found on other mammals.
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Trilobites Understanding how the endangered mammals smell the world could help with their conservation, researchers say.
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It can cause brain damage and death in marine mammals, and amnesic shellfish poisoning in humans.
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Both marine mammals and sharks are protected by federal law, which has contributed to their resurgence.
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Among these mammals were early monkeys and apes, the ancestors of today's gorillas, gibbons and humans.
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They evolved 120 million years ago and offer insight into the link between mammals and reptiles.
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The small mammals, which are already endangered, are native to China, Nepal, India, Bhutan and Myanmar.
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Second, the number included mammals, birds, and reptiles, but did not include insects, bats, or frogs.
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In the case of SARS, humans caught the virus from weasellike mammals called masked palm civets.
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Scientists have long struggled to understand how the mammals carry so many viruses without getting sick.
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Last week, ecologists estimated that 480 million mammals, birds, and reptiles had died in the fires.
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Japanese serow — goat-like mammals with long legs like antelope — seem to prefer the inhabited zone.
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Placental mammals like humans are born relatively mature, but take longer to develop in the womb.
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Since birds have more green cones in their eyes than mammals, the tactic is particularly effective.
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Mammals share many of the genes governing the production of hormones and neurotransmitters in the brain.
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Then, there's the underlying conceit: mammals, we learn, are no longer split into predators and prey.
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Walruses are large, tusked marine mammals in the same pinniped clade as seals and sea lions.
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One branch produced birds, reptiles and dinosaurs, and another (that included the Varanopid) led to mammals.
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They interact with pollinators, songbirds, insects, mammals, not to mention human communities that depend on them.
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Their brains, like those of all marsupials, are very different from the brains of placental mammals.
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Alongside the fossils, researchers found bones from at least 64 mammals that also got carried downstream.
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Otters are mammals of the subfamily Lutrinae, one of two subfamilies contained within the family Mustelidae.
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Not surprisingly, hooded seal milk is more than 60 percent fat — the fattiest milk among mammals.
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Trilobites Humpback whales are skilled acrobats, emotive singers and the most ambitious migrators of all mammals.
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Recently, that's meant taking melatonin supplements, a naturally occurring hormone believed to induce sleep in mammals.
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In fact, for a long time, scientists believed that only mammals broke down food by chewing.
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Cats and large Norway rats were the first invasive mammals to make it to New Zealand.
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