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Extinct mammals: Doedicurus, "pre-horse" (Eohippus?), Smilodon, Uintatherium
It also included lots of modern animals, making "The Lost Land" feel pretty alive: baboon, chimpanzee, a crocodile, a frog, gazelle, iguana, ring-tailed lemur, macaw, toucans, alligator snapping turtle.
With the Sweet 16 battles complete, the points are:
Anthropology: 41
Herpetology: 54
Invertebrate Paleontology: 33
Mammals: 53
Minerals: 51
Mollusks: 48
Science, Research & Collections: 43
Vertebrate Paleontology: 48
Rodent recap here! https://t.co/oa5U0xFpNV
Seals are the best semi-aquatic mammals: They can hear underwater and in air. Fully aquatic whales🐳 hear effectively underwater, and terrestrial mammals🐁 hear properly in air. Seals can do both!
Other semi-aquatic mammals can't do this! 🦦 3/N
#InternationalDayOfTheSeal
Awesome new paper by @Rui_Diogo_Lab visualizing "lost muscles" in embryonic humans that reflect deep developmental homology with other mammals: https://t.co/EWIboZiyH9
🚨New paper published!🚨
Excited to announce my colleagues & I have published on #Scotland's own #Jurassic #mammals: Borealestes! We fully describe it for the 1st time, incl. new near complete jaws & upper tooth row, all from #IsleofSkye. #MesozoicMammals
https://t.co/ACETeqb9tV
Harriett Scott & Helena Forde, best known for their exquisite illustrations of butterflies, also expertly depicted Australia's mammals: "The Mammals of Australia" (1871) via @BioDivLibrary @SILibraries
#ScottSisters #WomensHistoryMonth #HerNaturalHistory https://t.co/vd3Lzshoxe
It’s #MammalMonday so I give you a close relative to mammals: Oligokyphus lufengensis, a tritylodontid cynodont from the Lower Lufeng Fm, Early Jurassic (Hettangian) of China. #paleoart #cynodonts
The Irony
As the corrupt SS #SeaWorld sinks into the cold sea, we’re reminded of one of the captivity corporation’s favorite justifications 4 incarcerating marine mammals:
The ocean IS a scary place (for SW executives)... but marine mammals like #Blackfish call it “home”