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The researchers examined 64 extinct species, including mammals, mammallike ancestors from more than 230 million years ago called mammaliamorphs, and much older ancestors known as nonmammalian synapsids.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 20, 2022

What behaviors and dynamic homeostatic processes might be associated with the properties of red blood cells in mammalian and nonmammalian organisms?

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

There is also evidence that nonmammalian creatures with quite different brain structures possess a conscious self.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2021

When you add the viruses infecting nonmammalian animals, plants, terrestrial bacteria, and every other possible host, the total comes to … lots.

From National Geographic • Jan. 14, 2021

But the reader gradually realizes that Mabel, with all her difficulty and alien, nonmammalian ways, is exactly what Macdonald needs.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2019