mammifer

However, the presence of this mammifer preoccupied the colonists.

The Mysterious Island 2005

However, the presence of this mammifer preoccupied the colonists.

The Mysterious Island 2005

If one species only of the whole animal kingdom died out in forty years, no more than one mammifer might disappear in forty thousand years, in a region of the dimensions of Europe.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904

I am not here to tell you falsehoods of the great difficulties that I have overcome in understanding and subjugating this mammifer, whilst he was grazing at liberty amongst the mountains in the plains of the torrid zone.

Pinocchio The Tale of a Puppet Carlo Collodi 1858

Thus, the first reptile was born from a fish, the first bird was generated by a reptile, and the first mammifer had birds for its parents.

A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' Francis Bowen 1850

The mammifer only passes through still more stages, according to its higher place in the scale.

A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' Francis Bowen 1850

The germ of a higher animal -- a mammifer, for instance -- is the representative of a lower animal full-grown, like the

A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' Francis Bowen 1850

It breaks through all principles of classification to take one mammifer as an epoch.

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

There is no case of the same mammifer being found on an island far from the coast, and on the mainland, as happens with plants {382}.

The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 Charles Darwin 1845

On the idea of double creations it would be strange if the same species of several plants should have been created in Australia and Europe; and no one instance of the same species of mammifer having been created, or aboriginally existing, in two as nearly remote and equally isolated points.

The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 Charles Darwin 1845