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Scientists Uncover a Baffling New Pit Viper in Myanmar

scientists have uncovered a profound truth: nature seeks novelty over categorization. In every era, humans seek new ways to ...
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The principles of classification and a classification of mammals George Gaylord Simpson

Principles of taxonomy -- Formal classification of mammalia -- Review of mammalian classification -- Bibliography -- Index to technical names -- Index to vernacular names siris_sil_16894 ...

AI classifier flags bird flu genomes more likely to spread in mammals

A research team from the LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has developed a machine-learning ...
The Conversation

Meet ‘Tous’ – an entirely new genus of mammal we identified. Here’s why it’s so exciting

Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Study Finds Hundreds of Mammals Are Waiting to Be Discovered

Bats, rodents, hedgehogs, and shrews are mammals among the orders that are predicted to have the most undescribed mammals. (Pictured: a bicolored shrew) Werner Korschinsky via Wikimedia Commons under ...
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Scientists discover bizarre termite species with whale-like head

Scientists have discovered a tiny termite with a head resembling that of a sperm whale, forcing a rewriting of its evolutionary tree.