March Mammal Madness is the bracket for animal lovers everywhere

This March, it’s time for a different kind of bracket: March Mammal Madness. Instead of obsessing over college basketball teams, pit furry, fuzzy organisms against each other in epic (and purely theoretical) duels to see which one comes out on top.

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Brackets for the 2019 edition of March Mammal Madness are available, and this year’s competitors range from the mink to the nine-banded armadillo to spinifex hopping mouse to the… dandelion. (The tournament does include some non-mammals.) The dandelion, in case you were curious, starts off pitted against the nimravid, which on the one hand was a large cat like the saber-toothed tiger, but on the other hand is now extinct. This battle…

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