Synapsida

(For the TLDR crowd; just read the last paragraph). It's been known for a long time that, at the highest level, mammals can be divid...

Modern wolverine Africa is the world's second-largest continent, containing about 20% of Earth's total land area. Despite this, ...

Eurasian lynx Once we get away from the "big cats" as traditionally thought of (lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, and so on...

Prodeinotherium Pigs seem to have been another example of animals crossing over from Asia when that continent collided with Africa aro...

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...