Synapsida

Bat-eared fox The species of the dog family can, broadly speaking, be placed into three main subgroups: the wolf -like dogs (including, ...

Skeleton of a European mole (Note the odd-looking humerus and shoulder girdle) The mole family includes over 40 species, found across ...

When we're considering how an animal interacts with its environment, and the other life around it, diet is understandably one of the m...

This picture is far less cute if you're a mouse Animals, on the whole, want to avoid being eaten. There are a number of ways of achi...

Culpeo When North and South America collided towards the end of the Pliocene epoch a little over two million years ago, dogs were, for ...

Mylohyus The beginning of the Pliocene epoch in North America was not marked by any great cataclysmic event, such as happened in Europe ...

One of the main problems facing the continued survival of wild animal species across the world is loss of habitat. (Naturally, this goes f...