Synapsida

White rhino Rhinoceroses are amongst the largest land animals alive today, exceeded in size only by the elephants. As one might imagine, giv...

In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion probably does not sleep tonight. The main reason for this is that lions don't really live in ...

The wild mice and rats of the Americas are not members of the true "mouse family", the Muridae, but instead belong to the Cricetid...

Red-shanked douc Modern genetic analysis has shown that the leaf-eating monkeys of the Old World consist of three, related, evolutionary bra...

Nimbacinus When we think of marsupials, the animal that's probably most likely to come to mind first is the kangaroo, likely followed by...

Almost anywhere you can go on Earth, you will find life. A field of molten lava might be going a bit far, but otherwise, life seems to have ...

There are five species of deer native to the US and Canada. Two of these, the moose and the caribou , are distinctive animals with no espec...