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Massachusetts recognizes May 16 as Endangered Species Day, highlighting 453 endangered plants and animals. Eleven mammals are endangered, including six whale species and five bat species. Endangered ...
Animal Life in the Yosemite: an Account of the Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, and Amphibians in a Cross-section of the Sierra Nevada. By J. Grinnell T. I. Storer. Pp ...
New research conducted by paleontologists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN) and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ...
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In the animal kingdom, it seems big is out and little is in. New research suggests that large long-lived birds and land mammals will face extinction over the next century as small insect-eating ...
A study suggests that neuromuscular adaptations in mammals and birds may have allowed them to become more nimble than reptiles and amphibians. Since the 1900s, neuroscientists have known that the ...