mammalian

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The focus of the convention on mammalian species over others like fish and insects has previously been a criticism of the agreement.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Perceptive viewers may have noticed a mammalian bias in the original — there were no reptiles to be found in its near-perfect society.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

The new field data and imagery collected by Vejmělka provide crucial insight into this rarely seen species and shed new light on the extraordinary mammalian biodiversity of New Guinea's remote highlands.

From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2025

The average mammalian species, not to mention the average primate species, lasts about one million to three million years, and most didn’t need an Armageddon-scale trauma to usher them out of the fossil record.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

It creates a massive vapor lock, as it were, in mammalian fuel lines: The body is prevented from turning what it eats into a source of usable energy.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer