#2026MMM if you liked tonight's art of the #ExtinctionDivision, it's available as stickers in the Erminea shop! Proceeds earned go towards supporting the MMM Art Team! ermineainc.org/shop/

Given tonight's #2026MMM, you might wonder how do we recover DNA from ancient animals or humans? To find out see www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp_y...!

And let us thank those Natural Historians of the past and the Geneticists of today... and the Historical Ecologists... and the Teeth Researchers... and the Museum Curators for the science that let us tell these stories of the lost species #ExtinctionIsForever #2026MMM

Sea Mink INTIMIDATES Faulkland Island Wolf!!! #UpsetCity #MightyMustelid #2026MMM

Sea Mink was to American mink as Polar Bears are to Grizzly Bears... meaning from an already incredible ancestor diverged a bigger, beastier version adapted to hunt marine resources. #EarlyLandToSeaEvolutionaryTransition (Sealfon 2007) #2026MMM

The sturdy, fox-sized tawny, tan, black & buffy Falkland Island Wolf WAS NOT A WOLF! OR A FOX! Instead on the weirdie branch of South American canids that includes Chrysocyon brachyurus (Maned Wolf #NotAWolf) & Speothos venaticus (Bush Dog #NotADog) (Oshman 2012; Zrzavý et al. 2018).

Last up of the Night: #7-seed Falkland Island Wolf (Dusicyon australis) vs. #10-seed Sea Mink (Neogale macrodon)! #2026MMM

UP NEXT: 4th-seeded Caribbean Monk Seal (Neomonachus tropicalis) vs. 13th-seeded Yallara (Macrotis leucura), a special collaboration between @mammalssuck.bsky.social & yours truly #2026MMM

UP NEXT: 5th-seeded Baiji (Lipotes vexillifer) vs.12th-seeded Martinique Giant Rice Rat (Megalomys desmarestii) #2026MMM

Why are so many island hutias extinct? Woods et al found that all island hutias were related and each island harbored a small population of a new species. Unfortunately that same isolation makes these species vulnerable to complete extinction #RIP doi.org/10.1093/molb... #2026MMM

Next Up: #6-seed Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) vs. #11-seed Little Swan Island Hutia (Geocapromys thoracatus)!! #2026MMM

NEXT UP: 8-seeded Saudi Gazelle (Gazella saudiya) vs. 9-seeded Japanese Otter (Lutra nippon) #2026MMM

Next up: Aurochs (Bos primigenius) vs. Bramble Cay Meloymis (Melomys rubicola)!!! #2026MMM

Once lost, a species is lost forever. Even though new genetic technologies allow us to bring back phenotypes, maybe even return such mutants to serve ecosystem roles in lost landscapes... it can never be the same species. #2026MMM

Time has NOT run out, & each of us can make an impact on recovering our ecosystems & reducing our use- through our time, through our effort, through our political engagement, and through our thoughtful conversations with loved ones. #2026MMM

UP NEXT: 1st-seeded Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) vs. 16th-seeded St Kilda House Mouse (Mus musculus muralis) #2026MMM

Now, we all saw that Time Cover last April and the ecstatic headlines round the world. But “DeExtinction” is marketing. There are innovations in genetics that have the potential to help protect threatened species that are still living. But once lost, a species is lost forever. #2026MMM

TONIGHT is ROUND 1 of the Extinction is Forever Division of species lost in recent decades & centuries due to the actions, and inactions, of humans. #HumanImpacts #Anthropocene #2026MMM

#2026MMM MONEY MAMMALS ROUND 1 WINNERS: Humpback Whale, Eastern Gorilla, Giraffe, Indian Rhinoceros, Bornean Orangutan, Hippopotamus, Oryx, Asian Elephant Please join us TOMORROW (Thursday 3/12) at 8PM EST for Library Legends Round 1!

First Up: #1 seed Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) vs #16 seed Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) #2026MMM

NEXT UP: No. 4 Indian Rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis) vs. No. 13 Chital (Axis axis) #2026MMM

LAST BATTLE OF THE NIGHT! Seed #8 Spectacled Bear (Tremarctos ornatus) vs Seed #9 Eastern Gorilla (Gorilla beringei) #2026MMM

Next up! 6-seed Roan Antelope (Hippotragus equinus) VS 11-seed Borean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) #2026MMM

Next Up! 3rd seed Common Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) vs 14th seed Brown-Throated Sloth (Bradypus variegatus). #2026MMM

Next Up: #7-seed Arabian Oryx (Oryx leucoryx) vs #10-seed Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx) #2026MMM

#2026MMM WILDCARD EMOJI BATTLE RESULTS 🦴🆚💉: 🦴👚🐜/💉👚🐜/ 🦴👀🐜/💉👀🐜/🦴💥💉/ 💉🗡️💀/💉🗡️🦴/💉🍽️🥣/ 🏆💉

From the darkness comes... the nymph ASSASSIN BUG... arrayed with an even greater corpse cape, the 4mm Assassin Bug has attached several ant corpses to its abdomen with "fine adhesive threads that the bug secretes from its abdomen" appearing much bigger! (Jackson and Pollard 2007). #2026MMM

Bone Collector Caterpillar has been decorating its 5mm body with a hodgebodge of insect body parts... with an ant head and leg, fly wing, bark beetle abdomen, and weevil head, precisely sized, positioned, and woven to cover the caterpillar's body (Rubinoff et al. 2025) #2026MMM

Hailing from Hawaii, if you are just now learning about Bone Collector Caterpillar, that's because it was first described to science in late April 2025, literally in the journal SCIENCE! (Rubinoff et al. 2025) #2026MMM www.npr.org/2025/05/01/n...

FIRST & ONLY UP TONIGHT: Bone Collector Caterpillar (Hyposmocoma) vs. Assassin Bug (Acanthaspis petax) #2026MMM

Even USAID that HAD BEEN the leading purchaser of food grown by American Farmers, helped support wildlife protection by investing in people, parks, & communities in the ecotourism sector. THESE ESSENTIAL USES OF THE PUBLIC ENDOWMENT HAVE BEEN AND ARE BEING DISMANTLED #2026MMM

And March Mammal Madness would not be possible without the incredible achievements of scientists the world over, so many funded by those historical engines of excellence- the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin #2026MMM

Real Talk: you hear from me A LOT, but March Mammal Madness is made possible by the most incredible teaMMM of the very awesomest people you will ever have the honor of knowing! #2026MMM

All March Mammal Madness results will be available at the LibGuide in MMMAGAZINE, text (in English & Spanish), play-by-play, and VIDEO FORM in the minutes and hours after the events happen here libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM... #2026MMM

If you want JUST the official tournament tweets and not ALL the #FanBanter, follow @mmmletsgo.bsky.social helmed this year by @jesspopescu.bsky.social! Big Thanks to Emma for launching this concept on that other site, so many, many years ago! #2026MMM

It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights... youtu.be/EJ9yAV8uQ7g?... #2026MMM

#2026MMM ITS THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR!!

5 minutes folks! #2026MMM

ONE WEEK UNTIL THE WILD CARD! #2026MMM Pick your portal: Players: libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM... Learners: libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM... Educators: libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...

The Voyageurs Wolf Project of Northern Minnesota tags & documents grey wolf ecology & behavior: www.voyageurswolfproject.org The video you see here is confirmatory proof: Wolves. Love. Blueberries. As much as 83% of a wolf's calories in summer months comes from eating berries.

if you loved watching women's hockey at the Olympics, keep up that energy with the PWHL / NCAA. the PWHL resumes on Thursday, with games streaming live on youtube in the United States. schedule here: www.thepwhl.com/en/schedule

This lying liar is arguing to ban birth control because doctors might not tell women all the medical risks. Well, good thing that, thanks to a law that already exists, birth control is required to come with a giant pamphlet listing every possible risk. Which she knows. She's a lying liar.

2026 KEY DETAILS VIDEO posted #2026MMM youtu.be/jo7p1Cm-Jz0?...

NJ lawmakers introduce the FUCK ICE Act. The bill "permits civil action for violations of US Constitution related to immigration enforcement."

It's Bracket Drop Day!!! Stay tuned for all the fun to come for BC's 2026 Madness with the @creativesatbc.bsky.social @forrerlearningcommons @bc_envr_club @bcbioenvr and Dr. Kreps' Conservation Bio class! #2026MMM #bcvammm

BRACKET DROP DAY!!!! Get yours now at the LibGuide! libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM... Pick your portal: Players, Learners, or Educator! #2026MMM

And this is why I kept telling students not to trust what LLMs tell you about archaeology, because there are so many pseudoarchaeology sites out there that quote real research and then go off on their own to incorporate aliens or whatever. You don't know what you don't know if you're a student.

Olympic highlight in this house.

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