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Saturday, 29 January 2022
Monkeys with Many Stomachs
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Rhesus monkeys have entirely normal stomachs The word "monkey" entered the English language relatively late, in the 16th century. ...
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Sunday, 23 January 2022
Out of the Amazon: A History of the Opossums
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Tate's woolly mouse-opossum, a marmosin species When most people think of marsupials, it's likely that Australia is the first place ...
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Sunday, 16 January 2022
Why Animals Have Whiskers
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One of the key defining features of mammals is that they have hair, or are at least descended from other animals that once had hair. The pri...
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Sunday, 9 January 2022
The Social Lives of Giraffes
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Many of the cloven-hoofed mammals are herd animals, living in large groups that typically have dominance hierarchies and other relatively co...
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Sunday, 19 December 2021
Prehistoric Mammal Discoveries 2021
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Lesmesodon , a weasel-sized hyenadont. A new species from Early Eocene France was described this year And so another year approaches its ...
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Sunday, 12 December 2021
Miocene (Pt 30): Horned Armadillos and Marsupial Dogs
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Borhyaena At the dawn of the Miocene, South America had been an island continent for many millions of years, allowing many strange forms of ...
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Sunday, 5 December 2021
Mouse Lemurs in the Mangroves
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Well over 6,000 species of mammal have currently been described, many of which have only been confirmed as distinct species in the last few ...
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