Mammals

The Burke Museum's Baird's beaked whale is one of about 10 Baird's beaked whales in U.S. museum collections and offers incredible insights into a species that is rarely seen or studied.

Discover how life has evolved across time and space, how it’s still changing today, and how it might change in the future.

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Washington is home to 141 species of mammals. Learn all about their habits and habitats, what they eat, where they live, and more.

An interactive tree diagram showing the pathways of relatedness and historical evolution of today’s 29 different mammal orders.

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The GRC can be thought of as a library of biodiversity—archiving frozen tissues from a wide variety of wild animals for current and future research.

A new study shows two major forces have shaped bat skulls over their evolutionary history: echolocation and diet.