All the Cainozoic mammals were doing this one thing in common under the urgency of a common necessity; they were all growing brain. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
We may infer from the frozen mammals and nature of the mountain vegetation, that Siberia was similarly affected. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
Before we proceed to any description of these mammals, it may be well to note in general terms what a mammal is. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Hair was evidently the earliest distinction of the mammals from the rest of the reptiles. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
With mammals, for instance, the form of the skull is often much altered with age, of which Dr. Murie has given some striking instances with seals. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
Among mammals, we see it strikingly displayed in Bats, and in a lesser degree in the Felidae and Canidae. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
Professor Owen has subsequently extended the same generalisation to the mammals of the Old World. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
Certainly either mammals, or the ancestors of the mammals, must have lived throughout the Mesozoic period. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Were there mammals in the Mesozoic period? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Why, it may be asked, has the supposed creative force produced bats and no other mammals on remote islands? 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
The Age of Mammals culminated in ice and hardship and man. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
He would have many of the larger birds and smaller mammals, which he could easily secure by throwing stones and sticks, or by setting simple snares. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
In the forests and following the grass over the Eocene plains there appeared for the first time a variety and abundance of mammals. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Although terrestrial mammals do not occur on oceanic islands, aerial mammals do occur on almost every island. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
Some reptiles, some vipers for example, are viviparous, but none stand by their young as the real mammals do. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Mr. Clift many years ago showed that the fossil mammals from the Australian caves were closely allied to the living marsupials of that continent. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
Mammals offer another and similar case. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
Hair is perhaps the clue to the salvation of the early mammals. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
In the Australian mammals, we see the process of diversification in an early and incomplete stage of development. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.