Synapsida

Leptomeryx World climate fluctuated during the Eocene epoch, but it was consistently warmer than it is today, including the lengthy Climatic...

Kob One of the features of the reduncinine subfamily of antelopes, as opposed to most of the other groupings, is that they require ready acc...

Mammals use a variety of means to communicate with one another: vocal, scent, and visual. Even those that are mostly solitary need to do th...

Bohor reedbuck Quite where, within the larger bovid family, the reedbucks belong was long a matter of contention. They are medium-sized ante...

The hippopotamus ( Hippopotamus amphibius ) is an iconic African animal. While their distribution is very patchy, in part due to their relia...

Sable antelope (male) The hippotragines are one of several small subfamilies of antelope. Small that is, in terms of number of species, beca...

Four years ago, I posted about whiskers , a feature common to the majority of mammal species, from horses to mice. They are so widespread th...