Synapsida

Allodesmus In this series so far, I have covered the mammalian wildlife of the Miocene continent by continent, showing how the diversity of ...

Monkeys and apes in general, and humans in particular, have a relatively poor sense of smell but the same is far from true of most other mam...

Populations of animals are not always stable from year to year, even ignoring the effects of direct human activity or climate change. If the...

Golden snub-nosed monkey Much of eastern China is dominated by two great river basins: the Yellow River in the north and the Yangtze in the ...

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...