UP NEXT: 3-seed Aurochs (Bos primigenius) vs. 6-seed Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus)! #2026MMM
— Brian Tanis (@tanisbp.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:01:49.238Z
The oldest Aurochs fossils have been dated over 700,000 years ago from Tunisa. However, genetic & fossil evidence points to an origins near India with dispersal and occasional hybridization with other bovids. #2026MMM
— Brian Tanis (@tanisbp.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:02:30.264Z
Aurochs fossils from the Pleistocene are found in few sites with many individuals. Later in the Holocene (<11.5k yrs ago), fossils become more common but in smaller numbers at each site. This is partially due to changes in climate enabling Aurochs dispersal into smaller patchy herds #2026MMM
— Brian Tanis (@tanisbp.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:03:21.616Z
#2026MMM #ExtinctionDivision #TeamAurochs Art by Olivia Pellicer @opellisms.bsky.social
— V Pellicer- looking for work! (@veppart.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:03:40.123Z
Most domestic cattle harbor mitochondrial haplotype T, but a few Near East harbor haplotype Q. Bonfiglio et al discovered haplogroup R, which is found only in Italy and may indicate a secondary event of local Auroch domestication or admixture doi.org/10.1371/jour… #2026MMM
— Lucas R Moreira (@lucasrocm.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:03:43.811Z
Direct accounts of Thylacine behavior is limited to indigenous histories, written accounts from diaries, & 112 known photographs from captivity or deceased animals (Sleightholme & Campbell 2021). #2026MMM
— Brian Tanis (@tanisbp.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:04:25.976Z
These accounts, along with ecomorphological studies suggests that Thylacines were nocturnal hunters that preferred to hunt along the edges of open areas & woody scrub, where they could use some cover to ambush prey. #2026MMM
— Brian Tanis (@tanisbp.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:05:01.501Z
#2026MMM #ExtinctionDivision #TeamThylacine Art by Olivia Pellicer @opellisms.bsky.social
— V Pellicer- looking for work! (@veppart.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:05:17.428Z
Ancient DNA can give us insight into the immune system to understand how well a species tolerated disease and and its impact on extinction. Peel et al found the thylacine immune repertoire was typically mammalian and highly similar to other marsupials doi.org/10.1007/s002… #2026MMM
— Lucas R Moreira (@lucasrocm.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:05:20.874Z
Home habitat advantage belongs to Aurochs. This evening the large bull is resting & digesting riparian plants along the fringe of a wooded grassland in 12-century Poland. #2026MMM
— Brian Tanis (@tanisbp.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:06:09.979Z
Nearby, Thylacine was just transported from 1830s Tasmania. Feeling vaguely at home in the grassy edge habitat, it moves off in search of a meal. In no time at all it hones in on the sounds of a tasty herbivore nearby #2026MMM
— Brian Tanis (@tanisbp.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:06:43.552Z
Aurochs calmly regurgitates some cud to rechew, oblivious to the marsupial in a bush nearby. Thylacine creeps forward…steadies itself for the kill….ready…set…POUNCE! #2026MMM
— Brian Tanis (@tanisbp.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:07:42.357Z
Measurements of limb anatomy by Janis & Figueirido (2014) show that Thylacine were most similar to ambushing & pouncing carnivores than pursuit-hunters. However, their limbs were not very specialized – suggesting they were more generalized hunters. #2026MMM
— Brian Tanis (@tanisbp.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:08:41.566Z
With a small squeak, the mouse Thylacine dove on darts away. With the laser-focus of the hunt gone, Thylacine now notices the giant Aurochs. #2026MMM
— Brian Tanis (@tanisbp.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:09:19.672Z
Despite looking "wolf-like" Rovinsky et al. found that Thylacine skull anatomy (2021) & body mass (2020) points to being specialized hunters of prey 45% smaller than themselves, ideally 1-5kg. Thylacine were functionally more similar to jackals or foxes than wolves. #2026MMM
— Brian Tanis (@tanisbp.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:10:06.732Z
At over 800kg, Aurochs has nothing to fear from this tiny marsupial predator. Their bones show up in dens of large Pleistocene predators like cave hyena and scimitar-toothed cats. By the 12-century the only natural predators of Aurochs were wolves & bears. #2026MMM
— Brian Tanis (@tanisbp.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:10:56.722Z
Thylacine looks at the Aurochs…& thinks "giant cow". Suddenly, Thylacine gets alert! Sniffing the air, he catches the distinct smell of farmlands & humans. #2026MMM
— Brian Tanis (@tanisbp.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:11:29.022Z
The Van Dieman's Land Company farmers initiated bounties for Thylacine skins – perceiving them as a threat to livestock. Later the Tasmanian government would offer additional bounties. An estimated 3,500 Thylacine were killed by humans between 1830 and the 1920s. #2026MMM
— Brian Tanis (@tanisbp.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:12:10.157Z
This Thylacine has spent many months carefully avoiding humans. With the fresh scent of cattle & humans, the Thylacine slinks off into the night….leaving the field of battle! #2026MMM
— Brian Tanis (@tanisbp.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:12:49.752Z
AUROCHS DEFEATS THYLACINE! #206MMM
— Brian Tanis (@tanisbp.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:13:08.790Z
#2026MMM #ExtinctionDivision #TeamAurochs Art by Charon Henning @oddangel.bsky.social
— V Pellicer- looking for work! (@veppart.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:13:23.255Z
Feigin et al used a complete ancient genome of the thylacine to reveal that their populations (and Tasmanian devils) started to decline slowly before human arrival to Australia making them especially vulnerable to hunting and habitat reduction doi.org/10.1038/s415… #2026MMM #RIP
— Lucas R Moreira (@lucasrocm.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:13:20.006Z
UP NEXT: 1-seed Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) vs. 8-seed Saudi Gazelle (Latin Binomial) #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:16:20.609Z
Sirenians- sea cows, manatees, & dugongs- because their diet of algae & plants are/were confined to shallow coastal areas where these marine resources rely on being close to both sunshine & seafloor. (Pyenson 2024) #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:17:39.692Z
#2026MMM #ExtinctionDivision #TeamStellersSeaCow Art by Valeria Pellicer @veppart.bsky.social
— V Pellicer- looking for work! (@veppart.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:18:00.605Z
Loss-of-function mutations in the lipoxygenase genes ALOX12B and ALOXE3 cause congenital ichthyosis (thick, scaly skin) in humans. These same genes are knocked out in the Steller’s Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), likely explaining its bark-like hide. #2026MMMdoi.org/10.1126/scia…
— Lucas R Moreira (@lucasrocm.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:18:15.512Z
The Saudi gazelle was extremely desert-adapted making use of remote Arabian desert regions that other closely related gazelle could not access. (Carruthers & Schwartz 1935) #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:18:53.006Z
#2026MMM #ExtinctionDivision #TeamSaudiGazelle Art by Charon Henning @oddangel.bsky.social
— V Pellicer- looking for work! (@veppart.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:19:22.218Z
Gazelles are the most species-rich group within the bovid tribe Antilopini. They likely originated in the Middle East, then spread widely: dorcas and Speke’s gazelles into Africa, chinkara into India, and goitered gazelles into Central Asia. #2026MMM doi.org/10.1016/j.ym…
— Lucas R Moreira (@lucasrocm.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:19:27.464Z
For today's battle, we begin in 1760s Commander Islands of the Beiring Sea, the approaching low tide has converged with a brief spring sunshower & Steller's Sea Cow, has hooked front forelimbs on the rocks to hold position while most of his body floats so more of his body warms in sunshine #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:21:49.153Z
MEANWHILE on the Arabian Peninsula in 1934 in the Dhalm region 150 miles northeast of Mecca, Saudi Gazelle is enjoying the still crisp morning after the sandstorm has blown through, taking advantage of the weather respite to browse shrubbery with several other gazelle browsing nearby. #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:22:35.819Z
GUN SHOTS RING OUT!!! #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:23:17.069Z
Major H. St. John Philby has taken a break from the oil-extraction aspects of Empire that continue to ricochet today… #2026MMM explaininghistory.org/2025/12/18/s…
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:24:42.014Z
to pursue the animal collections aspects of Empire, preparing a consignment shipment of animal specimens for the Department of Zoology, British Museum of Natural History #2026MMM http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the…
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:25:08.583Z
Bolting from gunfire, Saudi Gazelle races away, running in tandem with a large male saudi gazelle… #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:26:03.215Z
BAM!! Shot through the heart, the large male saudi gazelle falters & falls within 30 yards, to become specimen B.M. Or. no. 31 (Carruthers & Schwarz 1935) #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:26:50.483Z
BAM BAM!!!! Saudi Gazelle takes double lung shots by Philby's repeating rifle! Blood gurgling from her respiratory system, adrenaline has the animal still fleeing for 60 yards from the pursuing hunters but she begins collapsing… #2026MMM http://www.mobloodtrackers.com/general-8
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:28:19.486Z
She collapses through the #MMMagic translocation portal Saudi Gazelle stumbles onto the massive Steller's Sea Cow… #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:29:10.167Z
Startled Steller's Sea Cow rolls into the water,plunges Saudi gazelle into the last pulls of the outgoing tide where she drifts away. Forever.#2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:29:45.717Z
Steller's Sea Cow OUTLASTS Saudi Gazelle!! #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:30:04.617Z
#2026MMM #ExtinctionDivision #TeamStellersSeaCow Art by Valeria Pellicer @veppart.bsky.social
— V Pellicer- looking for work! (@veppart.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:30:16.335Z
Scientists thought captive gazelles could bring G. saudiya back.DNA showed they were WRONG! Those captive populations weren’t the same species!It seems the only real Saudi Gazelles left are… museum skins! #RIP Saudi Gazelle. #2026MMMdoi.org/10.1046/j.15…
— Lucas R Moreira (@lucasrocm.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:30:21.441Z
Next Up: 3-seed Gila Monster (Heloderma suspectum) vs 6-seed Southern Grasshopper Mouse (Onychomys torridus) #2026MMM
— Marc Kissel (@marckissel.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:32:20.881Z
Courtship in the Gila Monster has only been rarely observed in the wild, but occurs within rock shelters and the male rubs his head against the female's head and neck to woo her. (Kallem et al. 2024) #2026MMM
— Marc Kissel (@marckissel.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:33:18.151Z
#2026MMM #BoneyardDivision #TeamGilaMonster Art by Valeria Pellicer @veppart.bsky.social
— V Pellicer- looking for work! (@veppart.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:33:35.128Z
In 1997, analysis of RNA sequence expression found that Gila monsters have both GLP-1 and exendin-4 (a GLP-1 receptor agonist, like many popular medications today), but that exendin-4 was only expressed in Gila monster saliva. doi.org/10.1074/jbc…. #2026MMM
— Lucas R Moreira (@lucasrocm.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:33:58.179Z
Southern grasshopper mouse has developed a response to the sting of bark scorpions. He is able to deal w/ scorpion stings w/ an analgesic response to the scorpion’s venom: It feels *less* pain after being stung due to mouse's evolved painkiller response (Rowe et al 2013) #2026MMM
— Marc Kissel (@marckissel.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:34:29.764Z
#2026MMM #BoneyardDivision #TeamSouthernGrashopperMouse Art by Olivia Pellicer @opellisms.bsky.social
— V Pellicer- looking for work! (@veppart.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:34:43.836Z
But which other mice are the amazing semi-carnivorous Grasshopper Mice (Onychomys) related to? Seems that they diverged ~6 mya from the group that includes the North American Deermouse (Peromyscus) — do you think they still have family reunions? #2026MMM doi.org/10.1093/jmam…
— Lucas R Moreira (@lucasrocm.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:34:56.146Z
When we last left Gila Monster chowed down on the chilled amphibicle & then resting & digesting in her shaded rock shelter lair to digest. Gila monsters get on the move only only a relatively few days a month #2026MMM
— Marc Kissel (@marckissel.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:35:37.063Z
Southern Grasshopper Mouse, having feasted on the whip scorpion has continued actively hunting the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area when #MMMagic translocates mouse to the Picacho Mtns, about 500 miles away (or 2.36 million stoat lengths) #2026MMM #2026MMM
— Marc Kissel (@marckissel.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:36:27.014Z
TODAY is one of the days Gila is on the move…but slowly. Gila monster searches landscape flicking her deeply forked black tongue for scent detection, questing for preferred helpless prey of bird & tortoise eggs or mammal & bird nestlings in the springtime #2026MMM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLXK…
— Marc Kissel (@marckissel.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:37:21.617Z
Grasshopper Mouse arrives to the novel specific location, but with plenty of familiar habitat features -rocks, sand, scrappy grass, twisty shrubbery- but the bright sunlight is NOT ideal & Southern Grasshopper Mouse seeks a hidey hole to wait out the daytime. #2026MMM
— Marc Kissel (@marckissel.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:38:24.958Z
Southern Grasshopper Mouse hopscotches on relatively short legs to shade cast under a nearby shrubbery…. #2026MMM
— Marc Kissel (@marckissel.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:39:25.651Z
The scent of something delicious is on the light breeze & lands on the flicking tongue of Gila Monster… a siren call toward a nearby patch of shrubbery! #2026MMM
— Marc Kissel (@marckissel.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:40:32.650Z
Deep in the center of the patch of four-wing saltbush (Atriplex canescens) is the shallow couch of a desert cottontail!! Mom is not around… but her week-old young are nestled in the 3 inch shallow "burrow" lined with dried grass & mum's fur (Harrison 2019) #IncidentalLagomorph #2026MMM
— Marc Kissel (@marckissel.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:41:34.355Z
Gila Monster arrives at the rabbit nest of 6 day old nestlings, eyes still closed, and immediately tucks in to the lagomorph smorgasbord (Beck 1990) #2026MMM owl-online.org/animal-guide…
— Marc Kissel (@marckissel.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:43:16.759Z
Southern Grasshopper Mouse prefers smaller prey, and silently withdraws unnoticed by the feasting Gila Monster, to seek shrubbery shade shelter elsewhere. #2026MMM
— Marc Kissel (@marckissel.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:44:25.952Z
GILA MONSTER OUTFEASTS SOUTHERN GRASSHOPPER MOUSE!!!! #2026MMM
— Marc Kissel (@marckissel.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:44:57.259Z
#2026MMM #BoneyardDivision #TeamGilaMonster Art by Mary C. Freisner @maryfreisner.bsky.social
— V Pellicer- looking for work! (@veppart.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:45:08.717Z
Interestingly, the molar teeth of Grasshopper Mice have a much larger "cusped surface" than some of their relatives, meaning their molars have more pointy parts. Why? To crunch insect & other fleshy parts, of course! But alas, too little too late #RIP #2026MMM doi.org/10.1093/jmam…
— Lucas R Moreira (@lucasrocm.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:45:36.376Z
UP NEXT: 2-seed Wild Dromedary Camel (Camelus dromedarius) vs. 10-seed Sea Mink (Neogale macrodon) #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:48:03.784Z
Wild Dromedary Camel on the Arabian Peninsula likely contracted into small populations due to extreme desertification of the region during the Last Glacial Maximum ~25-20 thousand years ago, when sea levels were ~400 feet lower & glaciers covered ~25% of Earth's land (Almathen et al 2014) #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:48:38.951Z
Wild dromedary camels were subsequently domesticated into "Ships of the Desert" their adaptations for arid environments made possible trade networks stretching from North Africa to the Middle East and into the Near East of Asia. (Almathen et al 2014) #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:48:56.498Z
#2026MMM #ExtinctionDivision #TeamWildDromedaryCamel Art by Mary C. Freisner @maryfreisner.bsky.social
— V Pellicer- looking for work! (@veppart.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:49:10.875Z
Genetic data show that the Camelus dromedarius, C. ferus, and C. bactrianus lost ~70% of their populations in the last glacial period. Domestication hit C. dromedarius again around 4-5 kya. The Wild Dromedary survived the Ice Age… then humans took over. #2026MMM doi.org/10.1007/s112…
— Lucas R Moreira (@lucasrocm.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:49:12.709Z
Sea Mink was hunted to extinction before it was scientifically studied, historical records have scant notes, but reputedly sea mink had "a distinctive odor and a fatter body than that of the American mink" (Sealfon 2007) #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:49:56.566Z
#2026MMM #ExtinctionDivision #TeamSeaMink Art by Charon Henning @oddangel.bsky.social
— V Pellicer- looking for work! (@veppart.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:50:19.851Z
American mink have a history of being difficult to place in the Mustelid tree of life. Mink in the genus Neogale, including the extinct sea mink, used to be part of the weasels in the genus Mustela but DNA found the two branches to be distant cousins doi.org/10.1016/j.ym… #2026MMM
— Lucas R Moreira (@lucasrocm.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:50:29.785Z
As the climate slowly shifted at the end of the Ice Age, the extreme aridity across the Middle East that had caused widespread dunes and disappearance of many animals, weather systems would begin to periodically return water into these regions (Guagnin et al. 2025) #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:52:05.264Z
Along the southern edge of what is today called the Nefud desert, here "a dryland environment persisted around these ephemeral, & probably seasonal, lakes" (Guagnin et al. 2025) #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:52:30.414Z
And 12,000 years ago, nomadic peoples depicted the paleoenvironment & animal communities in cliff-face rock carvings- illustrating the presence of camels, ibex, equids, and other larger mammals that they hunted. (Guagnin et al. 2025) #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:53:04.163Z
And nearby people would soon begin cultivating FIGS, one of the earliest cultivars, if not the earliest. The Fertile Crescent of Arabia is an important hotspot for crop wild relative protections (Kislev et al. 2006; Zair et al. 2018) #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:53:34.314Z
"TODAY" we go 12,000 years ago camels have congregated in the canyons of the Nefud at ephemeral water seeps collected in rock pools from the rains several weeks ago. Combatant camel has intimidated potential rivals & has waded into a water pool. #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:54:07.444Z
MEANWHILE… 2000 years ago Sea Mink slinks coastal environs best described by Edna St. Vincent Millay in her poem Renascence "All I could see from where I stoodWas three long mountains & a woodI turned & looked the other way & saw three islands in a bay" Sea Mink hunts in the bay! #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:55:05.064Z
Standing in the water, Camel stretches his neck to lift his head to reach the highest branches and leaves of a wild ancestral ficus just as #MMMagic translocates Sea Mink from Maine's coastal waters with a hard-shelled invertebrate clenched in his mighty mustelid jaws. #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:55:44.797Z
Sea Mink side-eyes the massive mammal #IsItMoose? But the camel is calmly browsing figs, so the Sea Mink sits in the shallow water & prioritizes food processing, biting down with better crushing carnassials than the American mink. (Sealfon 2007) #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:56:59.962Z
Sea Mink is mouth open, head tilted… delivers fracture forces from shorter-bladed, wider upper carnassial against the more flattened 'anvil' of the lower carnassial… (Sealfon 2007) #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:58:06.662Z
FWOOOOOOOOOPSLSH!!!! #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:58:54.526Z
Camel has pooped into the waterhole and all over Sea Mink! Fresh Camel dung now cakes the Mighty Mustelid face, mouth, & meal #FoodToPoo #PooOnFood #NotTheDistinctiveOdorSeaMinkWasGoingFor #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T01:59:41.449Z
AFTER ALL: Unmanaged camels at waterholes in semi-arid deserts routinely befoul the waters & extensively eat the plantsFILTER YOUR WATER!!! (Brim-Box et al. 2010) #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T02:00:41.896Z
Sea Mink dives under the water and swims to the far-side of the waterhole, climbs out to shake off, hard-shelled invertebrate still in teeth & with the short legs of his mustelid family, scampers up canyon to find a better, quieter waterhole for food processing. #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T02:01:30.647Z
WILD DROMEDARY CAMEL REPELS SEA MINK!!! #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T02:01:58.114Z
#2026MMM #ExtinctionDivision #TeamWildDromedaryCamel Art by Olivia Pellicer @opellisms.bsky.social
— V Pellicer- looking for work! (@veppart.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T02:02:09.993Z
Was the Sea Mink its own species or a variant of the American Mink? DNA from the American mink shows that it is not a very genetically diverse species, making less likely that cryptic variation exists within the living representatives doi.org/10.1093/gbe/… #2026MMM #RIP
— Lucas R Moreira (@lucasrocm.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T02:02:16.267Z
WOW WHAT A NIGHT! Steller's Sea CowWILD Dromedary CamelAurochsBaijiHoney BadgerPacific LampreyOssifrageGila Monster ADVANCE! #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T02:05:35.243Z
Join us WEDNESDAY for that SWEET SWEET SIXTEEN! And if your champion has fallen in the first two rounds of March Mammal Madness, swing to the LibGuide linked below and become a BUSTED BRACKETEER!#2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T02:06:10.707Z
Until then, be well, good night, & good luck! #2026MMM
— Katie Hinde (@mammalssuck.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T02:06:50.443Z
EXTINCTION IS FOREVER AND THAT'S SO METAL ROUND 2 WINNERS:#2026MMM #2026mmmSteller's Sea Cow, Baiji, Aurochs, Wild Dromedary Camel, Honey Badger, Pacific Lamprey, Gila Monster, and OssifragePlease join us WEDNESDAY 3/25 at 8PM EST for the SWEET SIXTEEN!
— March Mammal Madness (@mmmletsgo.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T02:08:00.404Z
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