Vertebrates, for example, are divided into mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. Mammals are warm-blooded animals with hair or fur and can produce milk to feed their young. They have ...
NMNH Biorepository (National Museum of Natural History) NMNH’s departmental collections (bird, amphibian, fish, mammal, reptile, insect, plant, and ecological samples) are associated with museum ...
TUCSON, ARIZ. (KGUN) — The Tucson Reptile and Amphibian Show entails exactly what you think: lots and lots of reptiles. Snakes, lizards, scorpions, alligators, frogs, turtles, and even more.
The authors selected all amphibian, bird, mammal and reptile species with a maximum population size of 1,100 mature individuals and/or a range of 2,500 square km or less (making reproduction ...
The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) has a puzzling array of features. Not only does it have that iconic duck bill, it lays eggs like a bird or reptile but feeds milk to its young like a mammal.
The extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans over the last 130,000 years has led to substantial reductions in avian functional diversity—a measure of the range of different roles ...