Synapsida

Like birds, but unlike many other kinds of animal, mammals spend a lot of time raising and protecting their young. It's therefore obvi...

Emperor tamarin (bearded subspecies) Monkeys of the marmoset family , which include tamarins, are known, not just for their small size, ...

Hemisyntrechalus The dolphin family is the largest family of aquatic mammals, by number of species. As I've mentioned a few times be...

As I mentioned previously as part of my overview of the weasel family , we used to think that the "common", or Eurasian, badger...

Once each year, animals like seals and sea lions haul themselves out of the water to spend time on rookeries located on remote coasts or d...

Golden-mantled tamarin Over the last five months I have looked at the 22 widely recognised species of marmoset. However, as I mentioned ...

Procoptodon The island continent of Australia has today what is probably the strangest mammalian fauna of any continent. Yet it is also ...