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Saturday, 30 January 2016
Bovids and Bovines - What Makes a Cow?
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The cattle family, Bovidae, is the largest and most diverse of the various families of big herbivorous mammals, with only the deer family ...
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Sunday, 24 January 2016
How Fossil Rodents Met Their Doom
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Tritemnodon , another early hyaenodontid from Wyoming A large part of palaeontology consists, as you might expect, of looking in detail...
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Sunday, 17 January 2016
Mammals of a Tropical Island Chain
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Insular flying fox, native to the Solomon Islands and Polynesia There are, at last count, well over 5,000 known species of mammal on th...
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Sunday, 10 January 2016
Big Bat Mothers
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Myotis sodalis , the Indiana bat A great many species of mammal exhibit some degree of sexual dimorphism , whereby one sex is larger tha...
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Sunday, 20 December 2015
New Mammal Species 2015
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Brown titi monkey As 2015 draws to a close, it's time to look at some of the species of mammal that we didn't even know existed ...
Sunday, 13 December 2015
The Dog Family: Fossil Dogs
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Hesperocyon , the earliest known "dog" Despite their variety, all dog species alive today are placed in a single subfamily of ...
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Sunday, 6 December 2015
Doggy is Not the Only Style
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In 1999, alternative pop group The Bloodhound Gang infamously sang "You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals / So let's...
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