Synapsida

Zoos have changed a lot since their inception in the 19th century. (Obviously, collections of wild exotic animals have been around for tho...

Otariid (above) and Phocid (below) Mammals, being air-breathing animals, mostly live on land. Even when they hunt or graze for food in t...

Many moons ago, back when I was at University (and studying zoology formally, instead of just as a hobby), the great majority of invertebr...

Many mammals have complex social lives, in which they have to interact with others of their kind in a multitude of different ways. Even th...

Asiatic wild ass The end of the Ice Ages saw a number of extinctions sweep across the world, particularly the Northern Hemisphere. Those...

Reticulated giraffes 2016 has, on the whole, been a bit of a rubbish year. Or so the common wisdom has it; one suspects that, for instan...

Steppe bison, from a cave in Altamira, Spain In the course of this series I have described 22 species of bovine. Whether that number acc...