Synapsida

Smilodon fatalis Over the  course of the last three parts of this series, I have looked at the various large herbivores that lived in No...

For the white-tailed prairie dog, one male is quite enough, thank you [Today is World Rhino Day . For past posts at Synapsida on the sub...

Takin (Sichuan subspecies) All of the various kinds of caprine that I have described so far in this series have looked, more or less, ei...

Hoplitomeryx matthei A well-documented phenomenon in evolution is that of insular dwarfism . What happens is that a population of large,...

A male agile gibbon We humans learn to speak from our parents, with our mothers playing a particularly important role. It's because ...

If you follow any sort of science news site, especially if you read the zoology bits, you cannot have failed to notice the recent announce...

Himalayan goral It is, of course, the case that all animals are continuously evolving, even if some of them don't change much visibl...