mammals
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New research published Thursday in the journal Science details how the whiskers that cover an elephant's trunk have unique properties that lend the largest land mammals remarkable dexterity.
From Barron's
It has led to the deaths of more than 400 million poultry worldwide and has infected dairy cows, mink, foxes, bears, otters, and many other mammals and wild birds.
From Science Daily
It may have resembled a lizard, but it lived before reptiles and mammals branched into separate evolutionary paths, so it was not technically a reptile.
From Science Daily
The stunning Sierra Nevada red fox is one of the nation’s rarest and most critically threatened mammals with fewer than 50 believed to remain in the Sierra.
From Los Angeles Times
As narrator Mercer Boffey tells us, these characteristics—shared by today’s mammals and the therapsids—“convinced scientists that therapsids gave rise to mammals.”
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