mammal
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The mammal can be found all over the world's oceans but is most at home in cooler waters.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
We can honor the legacy of our national mammal by supporting the ranchers and markets bringing it back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
A remarkably complete fossil discovered in Mongolia's Gobi Desert is changing how scientists view mammal evolution during the age of dinosaurs.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
What’s clear, according to scientists, is that it was a massive mammal that inhabited what is now Oceanside around 40 million years ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Did the Ancient Hainish postulate that continuous sexual capacity and organized social aggression, neither of which are attributes of any mammal but man, are cause and effect?
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Stumpf said the aquatic mammals were tracked throughout the day and first spotted by boats off the coast of Newport Beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
It would have eaten small dinosaurs, lizards and mammals – occupying a similar role in the food chain to the hyena today.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
It allows young mammals to consume nutrient-rich milk safely, preventing liquid from entering the nasal passages.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
But not like us higher mammals, some of which have even become quite adept at problem-creation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Australia, the smallest and most isolated continent, has always had far fewer species of big wild mammals than has Eurasia, Africa, or the Americas.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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