mammals
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The National Park Service has mandated guardrails for the work, including the potential presence of “protected species observers” who would call off drilling if marine mammals are nearby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Fossil sites containing dinosaurs also frequently preserve animals that were much smaller, including mammals, lizards, amphibians, and other vertebrates.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
In particular, competition with early small mammals could have prevented dinosaurs from moving into the mouse-sized and sparrow-sized niches that are filled by many vertebrates today.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
There is some praise for their work on drawing critically endangered mammals back from the brink.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The world holds only about 148 species of large wild mammalian terrestrial herbivores or omnivores, the large mammals that could he considered candidates for domestication.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
