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Juramaia is an extinct genus of a therian mammal, possibly a very basal eutherian mammal, known from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian stage) or Early Cretaceous deposits of western Liaoning, China. [1] It is a small shrew-like mammal weighing around 15–17 grams (0.53–0.60 oz). [2]
Theria (/ ˈ θ ɪər i ə / or / ˈ θ ɛr i ə /; from Ancient Greek θηρίον (thēríon) 'wild beast') is a subclass of mammals [2] amongst the Theriiformes.Theria includes the eutherians (including the placental mammals) and the metatherians (including the marsupials) but excludes the egg-laying monotremes and various extinct mammals evolving prior to the common ancestor of placentals ...
Eutheria (from Greek εὐ-, eú-'good, right' and θηρίον, thēríon 'beast'; lit. ' true beasts '), also called Pan-Placentalia, is the clade consisting of placentals and all therian mammals that are more closely related to placentals than to marsupials.
Animal sexual behavior takes many different forms, even within the same species and the motivations for and implications of their behaviors have yet to be fully understood. Bagemihl's research shows that homosexual behavior, not necessarily sexual activity, has been documented in about 500 species as of 1999, ranging from primates to gut worms .
The term "therian" refers to people who spiritually, physically, or psychologically identify as an animal. The species of animal a therian identifies as is called a theriotype. [ 13 ] While therians mainly attribute their experiences of therianthropy to either spirituality or psychology, the way in which they consider their therian identity is ...
A subclass of mammals [1] amongst the Theriiformes (the sister taxon to Yinotheria.)Theria includes the eutherians (including the placental mammals) and the metatherians (including the marsupials.)
Boreoeutheria (/ b oʊ ˌ r iː oʊ j uː ˈ θ ɛr i ə /, "northern eutherians") is a magnorder of placental mammals that groups together superorders Euarchontoglires and Laurasiatheria.
Therian may refer to: In taxonomy, a member of the mammalian subclass Theria , consisting of marsupial and placental mammals Therianthropy (disambiguation) , the mythological ability or affliction of individuals to metamorphose into animals or hybrids by means of shapeshifting