Synapsida

Around 5 million years ago, as North and South America finally moved close enough together for a land bridge to form, a species of cat took ...

While for humans, speech is our primary means of communication, for many mammals scent-marking is more important. This is not to say, howeve...

Kirk's dik-dik The "antilopine" antelopes are, as their name might suggest, mostly typical examples of their kind. I suspect t...

In 1675, German physician Johann Paterson Hain published a detailed description of the bones of what he believed to have been a dragon. Such...

Moulting is a feature of mammalian physiology that will be familiar to pet owners worldwide. While it's not present in all mammals, it ...

One of the most widespread behaviour patterns among non-human primates is their habit of grooming one another. Technically referred to as &...

Oribi The term "dwarf antelope" can reasonably be applied to many different kinds of antelope that are smaller than, say a typical...