Category: Mammals

The pouched mammals include the familiar kangaroos and opossums besides several other animals not well known to the average person, such as the Tasmanian devil, the bandicoot, the marsupial wolf, and...

Are you wondering whether any mammals lay eggs? Well, the answer is pretty simple. Only two types of mammals lay eggs: the duckbill and the spiny anteater. The duckbill also called platypus, is...

Mammals have a large number of features that are not present in other species. Two of these distinguishing characteristics are the presence of hair and the possession by the female of structures...

Whalebone or baleen whales are the largest animals alive, but they feed upon very small organisms such as shrimp, small fish, and similar creatures. It is obvious that an animal the size of a whale...

If we are to believe some fiction writers, there is a kind of manlike ape in Africa of the same general type as the chimpanzee, except that it is larger and considerably more intelligent. It is not a...