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This system has worked well for mammals, but throughout the tree of life, we can see other systems that have worked just as well for other animals.
Thanks to this phenomenon, which we also share with marine mammals, I'm able to continue with my dive.
Life in the Arctic includes organisms living in the ice, zooplankton and phytoplankton, fish and marine mammals, birds, land animals, plants, and human societies.
That way students might not fully grasp the way it works, but can superficially understand it, learning such concepts as the heart is a four-chambered organ, or potentially misleading statements like, mammals have a dual-circulation: one with blood going to the lungs and back, and another to the body and back.
In reality, mammals have a figure-eight circulation.
And why do some other mammals, such as deer, heal their wounds much more efficiently and completely than humans?
So it's good to start with simple animals like lampreys, which are very primitive fish, and then gradually go toward more complex locomotion, like in salamanders, but also in cats and in humans, in mammals.
It makes a wonderful link between swimming, as you find it in eels or fish, and quadruped locomotion, as you see in mammals, in cats and humans.
Monkeys, apes, bats, humans, and possibly elephant shrews are the only mammals on Earth that menstruate.
In most mammals, the placenta is confined behind a barrier of maternal cells.
They point out that true hiccups are found only in mammals and that they're not retained in birds, lizards, turtles, or any other exclusively air-breathing animals.
The ancient hiccup reflex may have been adapted by mammals to help remove air from the stomach as a sort of glorified burp.
Along with over 5,000 other species, they're mammals, or members of class mammalia.
All mammals are vertebrates, meaning they have backbones.
But mammals are distinguished from other vertebrates by a number of shared features.
Let's start with the most familiar, placental mammals.
Placental mammals can spend far longer inside the womb than other mammals.
Despite laying eggs and other adaptations that we associate more with non-mammals, like the duck-bill platypus's webbed feet, bill, and the venomous spur males have on their feet, they are, in fact, mammals.
We see similarly unbelievable genitalia in insects, mammals, reptiles, fish, spiders, and even snails.
And some hoofed mammals, like rams and bulls, use a whip-like extension on the penis's left side to create a sensation during mating.
Ground sloths flourished for millions of years, but around 10,000 years ago, they started disappearing along with the Western Hemisphere's other giant mammals.
Sloths also use less energy to keep themselves warm because their body temperature can fluctuate by about five degrees Celsius, less than a cold-blooded reptile, but more than most mammals.
While its radiation tolerance mechanisms are known, we have yet to adapt the relevant genes to mammals.
The mammals rose.
If you added up all the human beings, we would weigh 10 times as much as all the wild mammals put together.
Ninety-seven percent of mammals do not pair up to rear their young; human beings do.
Their ancestors appeared around the same time as the first small mammals, and they were probably able to survive because they were evolving— and growing—at the same time as their mammalian predators.
And of course, there is marine life, occupying the largest ecosystem in volume on the planet, from microorganisms to fish to marine mammals, like seals, dolphins and whales.
But if you look back at the big picture, we are mammals, too.
Insects, birds and small mammals figure prominently into children's pictures.
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