Synapsida

Grey seal There are four different species of seal that live off the coasts of northern continental Europe. Perhaps the best known is th...

Otters and badgers are both members of the weasel family , the Mustelidae. As a result, while they are visibly quite different, they have ...

Most species of bat eat insects, whether caught on the wing or plucked from leaves or other surfaces. But this is by no means true of all ...

Why bother being nocturnal ? Being active only at night makes it much harder to see what you're doing, and while it's possible to ...

Harbour seal When the modern system of scientific names for organisms was devised, and the first recognised catalogue of such things was...

Kolopsis , a diprotodontid At the dawn of the Pliocene, Australia was a relatively green continent, with plenty of rich, tropical and su...

Animals would, on the whole, prefer not to be eaten. As a result, they have evolved a number of ways of avoiding this fate. Being particul...