Synapsida

Fraser's dolphin One of the largest features at the British Natural History Museum is a full-scale model of a blue whale, occupying a la...

Eastern mole Moles are unusual animals. Most species are highly adapted for digging, spending almost all their lives underground, making th...

The Ice Ages were, without doubt, the most dramatic natural climatic changes on Earth in the last few million years. The last one was partic...

Irrawaddy dolphin While we normally think of dolphins as being sea-dwelling animals, there are no fewer than eight species referred to as su...

A modern South American monkey Much like the rodents, the presence of monkeys in South America has long been a puzzle. We know that monkeys...

Orange nectar bat When most people think of what bats eat, the first thing that likely comes to mind is insects. It probably doesn't mak...

Ageing is an inevitable fact of life. Without it, populations would rapidly expand to the point that insufficient resources existed to maint...