Mammal

Mammals are in the class Mammalia. They are a group of vertebrate animals. They have fur or hair and very precise temperature regulation. With the exception...

the taxonomical name for the main group of living mammals. This taxon contains the placental mammals, of which humans are one species. Eutheria was introduced...

The Australian Fossil Mammal Sites is the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Queensland and South Australia. The UNESCO listing is for two separate areas where...

Mammal-like reptile is an old term for the therapsids: those synapsids which gave rise to the true mammals. The term is both outmoded and a mistake, because...

Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference is a standard reference work in mammalogy giving descriptions and bibliographic data...

Mammaliaformes ("mammal-like") is a clade which contains the mammals and their closest extinct relatives. Living members of the clade include the monotremes...

Marine mammals are mammals that depend on the ocean and other marine ecosystems to live. They include animals such as seals, whales, manatees, sea otters...

This is a list of mammals of Great Britain. The Great Britain mammal fauna is impoverished compared with that of continental Europe. This is because there...

Riversleigh in north west Queensland, Australia, is one of the Australian Fossil Mammal Sites listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The other is the Naracoorte...

official mammals of U.S. states. Key: Years in parentheses are the year of adoption by the state's legislature. Minnesota's unofficial state mammal is the...

Trechnotheria is a group of mammals that includes the therians and some fossil mammals from the Mesozoic Era. In the Jurassic through Cretaceous periods...

Boreoeutheria are mammals that are the third superorder of placental mammals. They evolved on the northern supercontinent Laurasia after it split from...

Primates are an order of mammals. It includes all lemurs, monkeys and apes, including humans. Most primates (but not humans) are mainly or entirely forest...

Theriiformes is a clade of mammals. The term was first used by Timothy B. Rowe in his doctoral dissertation. Theriiformes are the clade formed by the...

The Afrotheria is a group of mammals, (a superorder or a clade). It includes the golden moles, elephant shrews, tenrecs, aardvarks, hyraxes, elephants...

Badgers are short-legged mammals found across Europe, Africa, North America and Asia. Badgers have wide bodies, with short legs for digging. They have...

Rodents (from Latin rodere, "to gnaw"), are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in...

their skulls. The group includes mammals and earlier groups related to mammals. They were originally called "mammal-like reptiles", which is a bit confusing...

Therapsids, previously known as the mammal-like reptiles, are a group of synapsids. The clade includes the mammals, which are descended from the cynodont...

invertebrates. Vertebrates include birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals. The parts of the vertebrate skeleton are: Braincase: A braincase or cranium...