# toothless mammal with keratin scales

Pangolins and the illegal wildlife trade » Pangolins, or scaly anteaters, are nocturnal, ant- and termite-eating mammals found in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa whose bodies are covered with overlapping scales made of keratin, the same protein… Christopherjgervais.wordpress.com

Toothless whale fossil fills gap in filter-feeding evolution » Analysis of jawbones suggests early baleen whales used suction to vacuum up their prey. Nature.com

The pangolin is being blamed for coronavirus and are endangered  » More than 300 pangolins are poached from the wild every day and make it the most trafficked animal. But the genome sequence of coronavirus in pangolins was a 99 per cent match to that of infected patients. Dailymail.co.uk

LibGuides: March Mammal Madness: #2022MMM Results » The official location for March Mammal Madness tournament information and resources! If you're learning, you're winning! Libguides.asu.edu

Figure 4. The craniofacial epidermis of Daspletosaurus horneri sp…. » Download scientific diagram | The craniofacial epidermis of Daspletosaurus horneri sp. nov., based on comparison with its closest living relatives, crocodylians and birds. Bone texture indicates large zones of large, flat scales and subordinate regions of armor-like skin and cornified epidermis; integumentary sense organs occur on the flat scales that cover the densest regions of neurovascular foramina. The region outside of the crocodylian-like skin is reconstructed with small scales after fossilized skin impressions of tyrannosaurids. This figure is not covered by the CC BY licence. Illustration © Dino Pulerà. All rights reserved, used with permission.  from publication: A new tyrannosaur with evidence for anagenesis and crocodile-like facial sensory system | A new species of tyrannosaurid from the upper Two Medicine Formation of Montana supports the presence of a Laramidian anagenetic (ancestor-descendant) lineage of Late Cretaceous tyrannosaurids. In concert with other anagenetic lineages of dinosaurs Researchgate.net

Feeding in Marine Mammals » Feeding in marine mammals: An integration of evolution and ecology through time Palaeo-electronica.org

How ancient whales lost their teeth—and turned into the world's biggest living filters » Rare fossil suggests toothless whale ancestors sucked up their food before evolving baleen Science.org