Synapsida

Binturong Most viverrids have a similar appearance: slender, long-snouted animals, many of them spotted or brown-coated. One, however, stand...

Anoplotherium Today, by number of species, the most successful group of large mammalian herbivores are the terrestrial artiodactyls - broadl...

Hearing is a key sense for just about any mammal species. While humans, and primates in general, place particular importance on vision, this...

A modern thrush This post will be the latest as of 1st April, so it's that time again... About 40% of all living mammal species are rode...

Common palm civet While the palm civets do, arguably, form a single group of related animals, they are spread between two subfamilies that d...

In 1891, Argentinian naturalist Florentino Ameghino , the founding father of South American palaeontology, described a new species of fossil...

The concept of the food pyramid is a central one in ecology. The idea is that since consumption cannot ever be 100% efficient, every type of...