Synapsida

Eurotamandua Today, when we think of large carnivorous land mammals, we think of such things as dogs, cats, and bears, but, while some of th...

Gemsbok As I have discussed previously, there is no such thing as an antelope , in the strict scientific sense. That is to say, they do not ...

"Pinnipeds" is the technical term for flipper-footed aquatic mammals that are able (although often with difficulty) to move about ...

The native mammalian carnivores of Madagascar are mostly obscure to those of us in the West. The one possible exception, thanks to the Madag...

When we look at scientific lists of animals, we usually see them placed into neat groups based on their relationships: families, subfamilies...

The camel family is one of the smaller mammal families in the present day, containing just seven species, four of which are domesticated. Th...

In terms of species, bats are the second-largest order of mammals, after the rodents. New species are identified all the time, due in part t...