Synapsida

So, I finally reach the end of the mini-series on mole-like mammals. I've looked at the moles themselves, two different kinds of mo...

Although they are hardly alone in this, mammals are noted for their care of their offspring. Yet many of them are solitary animals, and th...

The European badger ( Meles meles ) is a very familiar animal across Europe, the animal we immediately think of when we think of "ba...

Can you show me the way to Ontario...? The Pleistocene is the geological epoch immediately before our own. It ended just ten thousand ye...

As we've seen with the moles and the two types of mole rat, spending one's entire life underground requires a number of unusual a...

Oddities such as the brown antechinus aside, unless they die young, most female mammals can expect to give birth to several litters over ...

Aelurodon , a borophagine dog The mammals are an ancient group, far older than the birds, and, by certain definitions , as old as the re...