Students can watch vivid pictures change before their eyes, from lions to monkeys to dolphins. Authors provide interactive games that aid in learning the behavior of animals. Continue to explore by investigating the habitat, diet, and...

The Smithsonian National Zoological Park explores the lives of small mammals, both in the wild and in captivity. Choose a webcam to view a variety of small mammals live and up-close, learn about current conservation efforts, access an...

This is the opening page for an online exhibit on mammals. The topics covered in this exhibit include whales, dolphins, bats, humans, chimps, and more.

This resource provides extensive information about mammals.

In this video segment adapted from NOVA, animations of an asteroid hitting Earth are used to illustrate this widely accepted theory of dinosaur extinction and the resulting conditions that favored mammals.

Article explaining the basic characteristics of mammals, their diet, reproduction, behavior, conservation concerns, taxonomy, and their evolution. (Published: September 23, 2010)

The National Museum of Natural History provides users the opportunity to create personalized field guides of North American mammals based on a wide variety of search options.

Check out the research and current topics sections for ways that this rehabilitation center for marine mammals is using tracking methods to keep tabs on some of the patients they have released back into the wild.

Learn all about marine mammals at this fun site from the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. Explore different species, learn about migration, gather and graph marine data, and more.

Read about the discovery of the fossils of a strange-looking mammal in Spain.

Fourth graders will research Utah mammals and then create and present a mini-report.

From the pages of "Mammals of North America," a field guide published by Princeton University Press, this website offers general descriptions of striped, blunt-nosed dolphins and porpoises. Detailed pictures and maps of habitat range are...

From the pages of "Mammals of North America," a field guide published by Princeton University Press, this website offers general descriptions of several procyonids, including ringtails, northern raccoons, and white-nosed coati. Detailed...

From the pages of "Mammals of North America," a field guide published by Princeton University Press, this website offers general descriptions of both spotted and hog-nosed skunks. Detailed pictures and maps of habitat range are also...

Wikipedia, an open-source encyclopedia, provides great information on mammals. Content includes a look at mammal characteristics, origins, classification, and more.

Engaging site which covers some of the 40 species of mammals that live in Australia. Get quick interesting information on rodents, marsupials, bats and marine mammals that live in the Sydney Harbour area of Australia.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Traditionally, mammals were divided into groups based on their characteristics. Scientists took into consideration their anatomy, their habitats, and their feeding...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Mammals don't typically lay eggs, but monotremes are the exception. All other mammals give birth to live young and belong to one of two categories, the marsupials...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how reproduction takes place in placental mammals.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Mammals play many important roles in ecosystems, and they also benefit people. Learn more about the importance of mammals in this learning module produced by CK-12.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Overview of how placental mammals are classified.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers social living and locomotion in mammals.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What is a mammal? They walk, run, swim, and fly. They live in the ocean, fly in the sky, walk on the prairies, and run in the savanna. There is a tremendous amount...

An illustrated overview of the characteristics and behaviors of mammals.