They have live babies and mammals usually have fur while birds, fish, and reptiles do not. ------------------------------------------------------------ Another answer would be the reproduction of Milk (Mammary Glands) but there is one exemption to this because the Platypus is know to lay eggs (which is a bird-like characteristic) and breast feed when the young hatches.
All mammals feed their young with milk, have hair, have a neocortex region of the brain, and have three middle ear bones. There are other characteristics shared by all mammals, but the above four are (for the most part) that only ones unique to mammals.
The first mammals may have been Adelobasileus, a genus of extinct mammals about 225 million years ago. They may or may not have had mammary glands (the defining feature of a modern mammal). Their only record is a partial skull found in western Texas.
Only mammals nurse their babies.
Ribs
Yes. This is a feature of all mammals, and if this did not occur, the animal would not be classified as a mammal.
Mammals are the only animals that have true hair. This feature is what sets them apart from other animals.
mammary glands
Mammalae, or breasts.
where would it get the milk? A snake is a reptile, so its yong are on their ow and eat meat from the begining. In other words, No.
No. Birds are not mammals.
They are mammals that only eat plants.
Actually, it's the lack of bones. Mammals' jaws have only the dentary (the lower jaw bone) and the squamosal (the upper jaw bone). Non-mammalian amniotes have two more bones in the skull: the articular in the lower jaw and the quadrate in the upper jaw. In them, the articular and the quadrate fuse to form the joint. In mammals, the articular is the malleus of the middle ear, and the quadrate is the incus.