Synapsida

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...

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 ...