Finally, birds and mammals belong to a richly branching part of the vertebrate phylogenetic tree, most of the branches being grouped as reptiles, while two equivalent branches are given unequal ...

Rabbits and cows are examples of herbivorous mammals. Mammal – A mammal is a warm-blooded vertebrate with fur or hair on its skin. Omnivores – Animals which eat both plants and meat.

The genes that build the cartilage of fish gills were repurposed to build the cartilage in mammals’ outer ears ...

The Vertebrate Fossil Collections has an outstanding collection of Cenozoic mammals. We are a Federal- and State-recognized repository, and we work with numerous researchers and consultants conducting ...

A Proceedings of the Royal Society B study of 5,600 mammals found that two species will never return to dry land.

While most mammals of the era were small, about the size of mice or rats, this species was about the size of a modern muskrat. Lead author Jaelyn Eberle, curator of fossil vertebrates at the CU ...

and mammals indicate that genome-invasion events and retroviral infection happened independently in each of these animal ...