The most productive year is 1987, with 285 new species, and recent years have yielded about 150 new species. Both of these charts are derived from my personal database of mammal names.

Trending Help name our shrew-like common ancestor The theoretical species from which all placental mammals—that includes humans—descended needs a name. Curt Hopkins Updated on June 1 2021 11: ...

Updated on: May 9, 2016 / 4:22 PM EDT / CBS/AP WASHINGTON D.C. -- President Barack Obama has signed into law a resolution that makes the bison the national mammal of the United States.

The species name refers to George Hovanec, a Carnegie Museum donor who helped fund the team’s use of CT scanners to analyze the fossils. Holvanec recently passed away, and Mann and his coauthors ...