mammal
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But such an old mammal bone was the last thing he and his daughter had expected to discover.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
The juvenile whale, affectionately dubbed "Willapa Willy" by locals, was first spotted last Wednesday in the north fork of the river, about 145 miles southwest of Seattle, the marine mammal research group said.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
Purgatorius, a small mammal about the size of a shrew, appears in the fossil record shortly after the dinosaurs went extinct around 65.9 million years ago.
From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026
It’s not exactly a chicken and dinosaur-egg question, but which came first, the mammal or the giant lizard?
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
“No, an actual blue whale, the largest mammal on the planet.”
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
Vocabulary lists containing mammal
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