mammalogist
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mammalogists
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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
“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
“This massive sample will ultimately spark new and unexpected research directly relevant to human origins,” says Luis Darcy Verde Arregoitia, a mammalogist at the Mexico Institute of Ecology who was not involved with either group.
From Science Magazine ● May 31, 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 Ticul Alvarez
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
Because some mammalogists have suspected that intergradation between Sylvilagus floridanus similis and Sylvilagus nuttallii grangeri occurs along the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains, we have examined specimens which may throw light on this matter.
From Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of Some North American Rabbits by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall
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