mammalogist
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Prof Flannery, a mammalogist, says he stumbled across them and immediately knew they were from ancient monotremes.
From BBC ● May 27, 2024
“We don’t have baseline data,” says Natalie Mastick, a marine mammalogist and postdoc at Yale University’s Peabody Museum.
From Science Magazine ● May 7, 2024
“So it is really valuable to understand that it still occurs in the Cyclops Mountains,” said Kristofer Helgen, a mammalogist and director of the Australian Museum Research Institute who wasn’t involved in the expedition.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
Indonesia's island of Flores is a remarkable laboratory for the island effect, also called "Foster's rule," based on observations by mammalogist J. Bristol Foster in the 1960s.
From Reuters ● Mar. 9, 2023
My first contact with the state of Tamaulipas, as a mammalogist, was in 1957, when in company with Dr. Bernardo Villa R. I visited the Cueva del Abra in the southern part of the state.
From The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, Mexico by Alvarez, Ticul
Names aside, he expects most marine mammalogists will be on board with the proposed species; many have suspected species-level differences among the well-studied whales of the Pacific Northwest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
Herpetologists, mammalogists … I’m sure there are botanists who collect a lot of data on insects because insects eat plants all the time.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 18, 2022
If the bloodied roadkill was something museum mammalogists wanted and needed, taxidermists would work their magic, and the animals would emerge, transformed, as taxidermied fodder for dioramas or other scientific displays.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2016
He belongs to a new generation of mammalogists, who find new species by combing through dusty museum collections, sequencing DNA, and mounting rugged expeditions to Africa, Asia, and South America.
From The Verge ● Aug. 9, 2016
Other mammalogists who worked within the range of the vagrans-obscurus groups have avoided the problems in one way or another.
From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by Findley, James S.
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