Mammalia

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mammals

Home Subjects Covers About Contact Class Mammalia (MAMMALS) Click on the thumbnail to see more of each family’s species. Subclass Metatheria (MARSUPIALS – POUCHED MAMMALS) Didlephidae OPOSSUMS Phascolarctidae (KOALA) Macropodidae (KANGAROOS) Subclass Eutheria (PLACENTAL MAMMALS) Insectivora (moles, shrews) Primates (apes, monkeys, lemurs, people) Chiroptera (bats) Edentata [Xenarthra] (sloths, armadillos) Pinnipedia (seals and walruses) Lagomorpha (rabbits, […]

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grizzly bear

Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Grizzly Bear, Ursus arctos horribilis, is a subspecies of brown bear found in North America.  Brown bears originated in Eurasia and travelled to North America about 50,000 years ago, and into the contiguous US about 13,000 years ago.  It didn’t take long for European hunters to wipe most

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mammal orders

mammal Orders SubClass Protheria (egg-laying mammals) Monotremata (egg-laying mammals) Tachyglossidae (spiny anteaters) Ornithorhynchidae (duck-billed platypus) Subclass Metatheria (marsupials – pouched mammals) Didelphimorphia (opossums) Paucituberculata (shrew-like insectivores) Microbiotheria (Dromiciops australis) Dasyuromorphia (numbat, extinct Tasmanian wolf) Peramelemorphia (bandicoots and bilbies) Notoryctemorphia (marsupial moles) Diprotodontia (kangaroos, wallaby, wombats, koalas) Subclass Eutheria (Placental mammals) Macroscelidea (elephant shrews) Dermoptera (Flying

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