March Mammal Madness

Common Name Brackets in English
Common Name Brackets in Spanish
Latin Binomial Bracket
Screen-Reader Bracket
JUMBO brackets that print on 5 pages in English & Spanish
Brackets Brackets Brackets

View-only Google presentation. (Educators - go to File>Make a Copy to create a version you can edit)

Google Drive folder of 2025MMM logos and other graphics - PNG files.

A Gentle Vibe Trailer for Littlest players and those going through it right now.

Highlight reel of some of the biggest controversies in March Mammal Madness over the years!

Medium Vibes Trailer

Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan.

The Journal of Mammalogy and Mammalian Species are once again pleased to participate in March Mammal Madness (MMM) with the addition of other related Oxford University Press published journals, including American Entomologist, Annals of Botany, Behavioral Ecology, BioScience, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, ICES Journal of Marine Science, Journal of Molluscan Studies, Mutagenesis, Ornithology, and Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Includes details profiles of species, as well as links to other information sources.

Provides knowledge of the many life-forms on Earth - of animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria.

A collection of freely available scientific articles by distinguished scientists that are shaped for younger audiences by the input of their own young peers.

The Map of Life assembles and integrates different sources of data describing species distributions worldwide.

Compilation of all of the Read All About zines for each match of the 2024 MMM tournament, tournament highlights, usage data, and educator contributions.

Overview of and data generated by the the 2023MMM Tournament

‘Describing at Large Their True and Lively Figure, their several Names, Conditions, Kinds, Virtues (both Natural and Fanciful), Countries of their Species, their Love and Hatred to Humankind, and the wonderful work of Natural Selection in their Evolution, Preservation, and Destruction.

"Education and Outreach: March Mammal Madness and the power of narrative in science outreach"

Free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under a Public Domain or Creative Commons license.

Mammal is a tool for collecting, archiving, and sharing camera trapping images and datahouses the largest database of mammal detections in the world and includes open access favorite photos and data. Official participants in #2018MMM!

Database of freely usable media files.

The BHL portal provides free access to hundreds of thousands of volumes, comprising over 57 million pages, from the 15th-21st centuries. In addition to public domain content, BHL works with rights holders to obtain permission to make in-copyright materials openly available under Creative Commons licenses.

This will allow participants to have a digital MMM bracket of their picks that will automatically update and score their selections as the tournament goes on. If you are looking to run a MMM pool this will also give a convenient way for players to enter their bracket submissions and the pool manager can use the digital pool manager sheet to automatically score up to 40 entries and keep updated standings throughout the tournament.

This template allows a bracket pool manager to run a pool using Google Sheets. The pool manager can use this sheet to automatically score up to 40 entries and keep updated standings throughout the tournament.

This video goes over some of the common mistakes that are made importing contestant data. Three cheers for Mr. Brunstrum!

Intended to be able to automatically score up to 400 entries and keep updated standings. This manager may get slow and laggy with large amounts of entries, but it should work.

March Mammal Madness Pick'em Pool! Back for 2025! After his grandkid showed him the 2023 bracket, Grandpa PoolsByRound expanded his website for the Mammal Madness. Check it out!

Now open to everyone!

Learn about the vast Yellowstone ecosystem through field notes and stories.

The Kluane Red Squirrel Project is an interdisciplinary, large-scale field experiment designed to test the importance of food abundance to the ecology and evolution of red squirrels.

Highlighted in #2017MMM, this project focusing on meerkats is operated by the Kalahari Research Centre.

This website provides pictures, research, a blog, and educational materials about Orca whales in the Puget Sound.

This collaborative bat monitoring program is made up of an extensive community of partners across the continent who use standardized protocols to gather data that allow us to assess population status and trends, inform responses to stressors, and sustain viable populations.

Research about sheep, their ecology and their seasonal patterns.

The Amboseli Baboon Project is one of the longest-running studies of wild primates in the world. Focused on the savannah baboon, Papio cynocephalus, ABRP is located in the Amboseli ecosystem of East Africa, north of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Website curated by an international team of behavioural biologists based at the Leibniz-IZW in Berlin (Germany) who have been studying spotted hyenas in the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania for 26 years.

The Ngogo Chimpanzee Project Inc.’s mission is to conduct scientific research and maintain the long-term study of the Ngogo community of chimpanzees in Kibale National Park, Uganda, to conserve animal populations throughout the park, and to support the education of local people of all ages.

This site has a large collection of biology learning materials that includes stories, games, activities, videos, and a podcast.

This site has an abundance of anthropology educational resources, games, and content.

This site is NSF KidSites.com approved. It includes an eclectic collection of old illustrations and information about the history of paleontology and biology.

Search award-winning multimedia apps, animations, videos, and more to bring scientific discovery into the classroom.

Ask A Biologist is intended to serve grades preK-12, and to be available as a resource for teachers and parents. Topics include animals, biomes, birds, and plants.

The National Science Digital Library provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning.

This website provides access to our diverse resources and activities including BioKIC's natural history collections.

The animal kingdom (Metazoa, in Greek) is full of our distant relatives... some more distant than others! Metazooa is a game that tests how well you know our extended family tree.

Wordle for Animals for the month of March! Animordle was created by friends of the MMM tournament JT Miller of St. Albans School and Sean Nolan of the Landon School.