Synapsida

It has not always been easy to determine where exactly raccoons fit within the larger mammalian family tree. In part, this is because it...

Xiphiacetus Given their extreme adaptations to a life at sea, it should not be surprising that whales and dolphins have a long evolutionary ...

Meadow vole (a related species) It should go without saying that the behaviour of young mammals changes as they approach, and eventually rea...

It's a recurring theme of this blog, especially notable in last year's series on Old World leaf monkeys, that a great many mammalian...

New reconstruction of the sabretooth cat Homotherium , showing that the teeth would not have been as visible as popularly supposed 2022 appr...

Proboscis monkey (male) Perhaps the most distinctive and well-known of all the colobine monkeys is the proboscis monkey ( Nasalis larvatus ...

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