Synapsida

Gallinuloides This post will be the latest as of 1st April, so if you've been following this blog for a while, you'll know what that...

Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin The genus Stenella , to which many of the closest relatives of the well-known bottlenose and common dolphins b...

Scarritia 30 million years ago, South America obviously lacked horses, since those (still three-toed at the time) originated in the north, a...

It is, I would hope, well-known that the closest living genus to our own is that of the chimpanzees and bonobos. The second-closest is, of c...

Pantropical spotted dolphin The closest relatives of the common and bottlenose dolphins, which are perhaps the most familiar species to the ...

Large scary predators are, by their nature, rare. There simply can't be too many of them, or they would run out of food to eat, somethin...

While the various species of "roaring cat" all share a great many points of similarity, most are easily distinguished from each ot...