Synapsida

Chasmaporthetes Mentioning a "hyena" today likely brings to mind the image of a muscular, aggressive, scavenging creature, probabl...

Common genet At the dawn of scientific taxonomy in 1758, the group of animals that would later become the civet family included four species...

Northern meadow jumping mouse Hibernation is one of the most effective means that mammals can employ to withstand harsh winter temperatures....

Many large, hooved mammals live in herds. This has obvious advantages of safety in numbers, spreading the work of looking out for predators,...

Computer reconstruction of the skeleton of the Miocene  right whale  Megabalaena , published this year As another year draws to a close, it...

When Scottish geologist Charles Lyell first created the system of epochs we now use for dividing the Age of Mammals, he designated four of t...

Small Indian civet Most species of true civet weigh somewhere between 7 and 9 kg (16 to 20 lbs), somewhat larger than a domestic cat, and si...