Synapsida

It's well-known that cetaceans - dolphins, porpoises, and whales - make calls to communicate with one another, in addition to the sona...

I have often referred on this blog to the number of mammal species that are currently faced with extinction, of being wiped totally from t...

Manul The leopard cat and its relatives form one branch in the larger feline family tree, and one that's entirely native to Asia. Th...

Nine-banded armadillo Armadillos are, I suspect most people would agree, fairly odd-looking animals. Their unusual appearance is eviden...

Last week, I described how, over the last few decades, populations of gray seals have recovered from a near-total local extinction in US ...

According to the IUCN Red List , which is probably the most widely used catalogue of conservation statuses, roughly a quarter of all mam...

Leopard cat (a northern subspecies) The jungles of Southeast Asia are home to a particularly large number of cat species. These inclu...