Synapsida

The bear family as it exists today contains relatively few species. All but two of these species are placed in a single subfamily, the ursin...

Ringtail While true raccoons and coatis were first scientifically described during the 18th century, the third member of the raccoon family ...

Today, all large land-dwelling carnivorous placental mammals belong to a single group named, appropriately enough, the Carnivora. This inclu...

Sea otters ( Enhydra lutris ) are an endangered species, native to the coasts of the northern Pacific from Japan to California. I've di...

Crested caracara As I write this, it's 1st April, and that means, in lieu of trying to make a joke that somebody in the future will thin...

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...