#mammals

[canidsanimalcorner]

I played this game so much as a kid. I would spawn a bunch of animals and just watch them walk around for hours.

Coyote from SurvivalCraft

[mindblowingscience]

Ancient mammals that lived in the time of dinosaurs were mostly the same dark-brown colour, according to a new study providing clues about how those mammals evolved as they faced giant predators. The study, published in the journal Science, used scientific techniques that have similarly shown the colouring of various dinosaurs and ancient birds from their fossils. Advances in dinosaur knowledge have trickled into museums and popular depictions of the animals over the past years, something the new study's authors hope can now happen for ancient mammals.

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[have-you-seen-this-animal]

Whitetail deer

[doglover43]

the old english sheepdog ⚓️🐾

[fruitblush]

Weird mammals

Prints

[paleoart]

I just realized that apparently I never shared this series here on Tumblr??  

I call it Living Paintings, as they are recreations of extinct animals that some artists actually saw and painted from memory, a long time ago.

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[mossfroot]

o to be a fox cub in the bluebells

featuring such activities as:

get stuck in tree sapling

try to steal sibling's rodent

bite sibling's tail

lick inside mum's mouth to see if there's any food left

fall down hole

chase sibling

bite sibling's face

stand on sibling's back

stretch

[antiqueanimals]

Werner Plangg (1933 – 1994). Canadian Monarch. Oil on canvas.

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[hellsitegenetics]

Hello! I run the social media for my local library and I was just wondering what sort of plant or creature might emerge if I talk about books here. Just a lil guy perhaps, to encourage public library use. A new library mascot to say "Books are cool! Reading is fun!" etc. Thank you for your time and efforts. 📚

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Closest match: Lutra lutra genome assembly, chromosome: 14 Common name: Eurasian Otter

[amnhnyc]

The bat-eared fox enjoys munching on dung beetles, and dung beetles lay their eggs in the poop of ungulates like zebras and antelope. Using its oversized ears, this animal can even hear beetle larvae hatching in dung, which probably sounds a lot like a dinner bell to this wily critter. In fact, dung beetles and termites make up about 80 percent of this species’ diet, and a single bat-eared fox can eat up to 1.15 million termites each year!

Photo: wicus leeuwner, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[moomeecore]

african wild dogs

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

Bowhead Whale

First photo thanks to Paul Nicklen.

[doglover43]

you know it’s spring when the foxes come back!!🌱

[great-and-small]

Im a bit obsessed with these images from Hope For Wildlife rescue of a wild mammal with alopecia.

Can you tell what critter this is?

[rebeccathenaturalist]

She's going to use every hair of dem ears to continue to not listen to you.