Jerry Dragoo and his colleagues found that skunks should be classified as their own family, which they named Mephitidae, after a word meaning “stink.”
Nov 20th, 2008 | 14 comments | 4,295 Views

Jerry Dragoo and his colleagues found that skunks should be classified as their own family, which they named Mephitidae, after a word meaning “stink.”
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