Synapsida

White-nosed coati The common raccoon is the only member of the family whose scientific name dates back to the official dawn of biological ta...

It's been over a decade since I started including bimonthly looks at specific slices of Earth's past in this blog. In that time, I h...

While most attention tends to focus on large charismatic animals such as rhinos and tigers, it will probably come as no surprise to discover...

Mammal species have a wide range od different social systems into which they organise themselves. Many are essentially solitary outside the ...

Common raccoon While the raccoon family contains more species than most people likely realise, by far its best-known example is the animal f...

Northern Canada, it has sometimes been noted, can get a bit cold. The northern coasts, and the islands beyond them, are covered in treeless ...

A basic concept in ecology is that of the trophic level, a concept that lines up life forms by where they sit in the food chain. Plants are ...