Synapsida

The Cricetidae is the single largest family of mammals in terms of the number of species, at least according to the current count from the ...

Primates are, for the most part, social, group-living animals. This underlies many aspects of human behaviour and likely played a role in ou...

Large Indian civet Our definition of the Viverridae family has, as I noted previously , undergone some ups and downs over the centuries. It ...

The nasal cavities are not mere holes running through the head. Anatomically, at least, that's broadly true at either end - in the vesti...

Olympicetus , a simocetid whale Although  the oldest fossils of seal-like animals may  date  back to the end of the Oligocene, there are ve...

The carnivorous mammals have been recognised as a taxonomic order since the official dawn of biological classification in 1758. In that firs...

It may not be Halloween just yet, but it is October, so that's as good a time as any to talk about an animal that goes by the name of th...