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 marine mammal, which is stuck on a sandbank, was first spotted in Lübeck Bay on Monday.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
"A lot of people think of dinosaurs as sort of the mammal equivalents in the Mesozoic era, since they're both the dominant terrestrial animals of their respective time periods," Holtz said.
From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 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
Dates of domestication provide a third line of evidence confirming Gabon’s view that early herding peoples quickly domesticated all big mammal species suitable for being domesticated.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing mammal
Tyrannosaurus Lex(icon)
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Life Science: Organisms and Taxonomy
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Animals (Zoology) - Introductory
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