mammalogy crossword
Across
- 3. Molars with round cusps
- 6. When animals can pause in the womb/pouch before climbing out
- 8. having consumed food
- 9. Term used to greet someone
- 11. only eat meat
- 15. Shared traits due to a shared ancestor
- 17. Process of producing milk form mammary glands
- 20. teeth used for gnawing
- 21. History of evolution of a species
- 22. A distinctive smell, often unpleasant
- 26. Group of mammals that evolved in Africa
- 27. Animal that has feathers and flies
- 29. By word of mouth
- 32. A brand of sandwich cookies with white filling
- 33. fusion of fingers
- 34. Number of bones in the mammalian lower jaw
- 35. how species are named
- 36. a group that includes the common ancestor and some of its decedents
- 38. Group that does not include the common ancestor
- 41. Teeth used for grinding
- 42. Defined by the articulation of the squamosal and dentary bone
- 43. Not the future but the
- 44. Urogenital opening
Down
- 1. Teeth are different shapes
- 2. example of afrotheria mammal
- 4. Active during the day
- 5. earliest therian fossil
- 7. Traits that the common ancestor gave the live taxonomy
- 10. Placental mammal group
- 12. to be born without hair and eyes closed
- 13. Teeth used for cutting
- 14. number after one
- 15. Shared traits due to convergent evolution
- 16. Two procumbent lower incisors
- 18. succulent plant
- 19. Born fully furred and eyes open
- 23. April showers bring ---- flowers
- 24. Extinct group with one temporal opening and an ancestor of mammals
- 25. Decedents with the same common ancestor
- 28. Eat both meat and plants
- 30. Teeth that are the same shape
- 31. Group of animals that lay eggs
- 37. Active during twilight
- 39. Teeth used for shredding
- 40. process of being pregnant